NAME

FreeBSD::Sendfile - Wrapper for the FreeBSD sendfile(2) function.

SYNOPSIS

use FreeBSD::Sendfile qw(sendfile);

open(F, "file.txt"); my $socket = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr => "127.0.0.1:1234"); my $offset = 0; my $bytes_sent = 0; my $result = sendfile(fileno(F), fileno($socket), $offset, (stat("file.txt))[7], $bytes_sent); close(F); close($sock);

DESCRIPTION

Uses the FreeBSD sendfile(2) function to send the contents of an open file handle directly to an open socket. See the sendfile(2) manual page for more details.

Note that this module does not currently support the header/trailer functionality of the sendfile(2) function, nor does it allow the flags argument to be set.

AUTHOR

Mark Imbriaco <mark.imbriaco@pobox.com>

COPYRIGHT

This module is Copyright (c) 2006 Mark Imbriaco.

All rights reserved.

You may distribute under the terms of either the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License, as specified in the Perl README file. If you need more liberal licensing terms, please contact the maintainer.

WARRANTY

This is free software. IT COMES WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.

SEE ALSO

Sys::Syscall by Brad Fitzpatrick.