I was just doing research on using sendfile's modern zero-copy replacement(s), splice & tee: http://kerneltrap.org/node/6505 http://kerneltrap.org/node/6505 Th

I was just doing research on using sendfile's modern zero-copy replacement(s), splice & tee: http://kerneltrap.org/node/6505 http://kerneltrap.org/node/6505 They were linked elsewhere here, but worth repeating in a top-level comment. :) Possibly a handy tool for the rare times you need to squeeze blood out of a stone.