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Bug#265819: libc6: sendfile64() should fall back to sendfile() if not implemented by the OS



On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 09:23 +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> At Sun, 15 Aug 2004 03:02:47 -0400,
> Andres Salomon wrote:
> > (Not filing as wishlist because, well, it's a bug.)
> > If sendfile64() fails because the underlying OS doesn't implement it (as
> > linux 2.4.x fails to do for a number of architectures), it currently
> > just breaks.  If large file support is turned on, then there's no way
> > for user applications to fall back to normal sendfile().  Since glibc
> > already takes care of replacing sendfile() calls w/ sendfile64(), it
> > should also handle calling sendfile() if sendfile64() isn't implemented
> > by the OS.  
> 
> Do you have a test case?
> 
> Regards,
> -- gotom
> 

Currently, apache2 is our test case.  Adam Conrad or myself will send
you a smaller test case, post-sarge; in the meantime, this bug can wait.

-- 
Andres Salomon <dilinger@voxel.net>

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