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From: Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Subject: Re: I/O and MM question
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On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Jelle Foks wrote:

> (how/which function to use?). Does the mm/paging system of Linux allow me
> this? Or does the mm/paging code already somehow eliminate the memory-copy
> of the fread()->fwrite() combo (how?)? 

What about sendfile(2) ? It's linux-sepcific, but it does avoid
the getuser/putuser-couple for the data to be read/written.

cu
  Ingo
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