Update: Debox sendfile modifications

[Mike Silbersack]

On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Vivek Pai wrote:

> If you were to have sendfile issue the disk reads, how would you signal
> completion? I guess one approach is to make the socket buffer appear to
> have no space while the sendfile-initiated read is in progress, but
> it seems to me that such an approach would be considered too ugly. It
> would cause the least modification to applications, because otherwise
> apps need to disable interest on the socket having space, and re-enable
> it after getting notified that the sendfile-initiated read (and
> transfer) completed. Am I missing something?
>
> -Vivek

I'm not quite certain how I would do it yet.  At this point in time I'm
just brainstorming.  I have some other things I'd like to work on in the
next few weeks, I'll sit down and think about this more in late November /
early December if I'm still in the right mindset.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack