Re: sendfile(2) SF_NOPUSH flag proposal

From: Christoph Hellwig (hch_at_infradead.org)
Date: 05/30/03

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    Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 10:59:55 +0100
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>

    On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 02:53:26AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
    > This illustrates my thesis that interfaces with the same names
    > tend to converge over time. Another example is select(), which
    > Linux initially implemented as updating the timeout struct with
    > the time which had elapsed; this was divergents, and broke a
    > lot of code, until they relented and fixed it to defacto standard

    It hasn't changed. And trying to change it broke perfectly working
    code.

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