src/lib/libc/sys/sendfile.2, branch release/7.0.0_cvs

This commit was manufactured by cvs2svn to create tag

2008-02-24T05:45:17+00:00

'RELENG_7_0_0_RELEASE'.

This commit was manufactured to restore the state of the 7.0-RELEASE image.

Note that, thanks to the work by Alan Cox et al, some arch'es

2006-11-24T11:44:19+00:00

don't need sendfile() buffers any more.

The report on the work referenced can be found at
http://usenix.org/events/usenix05/tech/general/elmeleegy.html

MFC after:	1 week

-mdoc sweep.

2005-11-17T13:00:00+00:00

Document the fact that sendfile(2) can EOPNOTSUPP if the underlying

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filesystem for the file being transferred doesn't support UIO_NOCOPY.

Reported by:	Niki Denev

Sort error list.

2005-10-31T04:00:20+00:00

Scheduled mdoc(7) sweep.

2005-01-11T20:50:51+00:00

Since sendfile(2) works on regular files only,

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which have no negative offsets, "negative" and
"invalid" are equivalent WRT the offset argument.

Suggested by:	bde

Improve mdoc(7) markup.

2004-10-16T09:46:38+00:00

Give details on what will happen if the `offset' argument

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to sendfile(2) falls beyond the end of file.

Touch .Dd.

PR:		bin/72649 (in the audit trail)
MFC after:	1 week

Markup, grammar, and spelling fixes.

2004-06-30T20:09:10+00:00