Noah Lavine <address@hidden> skribis:
I've thought for a while that if I had time (which I know I won't) I would
make a module called (linux) with bindings for non-POSIX Linux kernel
features. What do you think of this idea? If so, what do you think of
putting sendfile there and expanding it with other functions as we need
them?
I’ve thought about it, but ended up with making sendfile work whether or
not the syscall is available (just like glibc does, after all).
So for this particular case, I’d rather keep it in the global name
space. There’s also the untold argument that even if sendfile(2) is
unavailable, the loop written in C is going to be faster than the
equivalent bytecode.