> sendfile() is a system call that sends data between two file descriptors Not quite. As Pike complains, the first file descriptor must be mmap-able and the s

> sendfile() is a system call that sends data between two file descriptors Not quite. As Pike complains, the first file descriptor must be mmap-able and the second must be a socket. I think his objection is that such narrowly applicable system calls do not belong in what should be a general purpose API.