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Description: Ruby interface to sendfile(2) system call
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Ruby sendfile(2) Interface

This module allows Ruby programs to access their OS’s native
sendfile(2) system call from any IO object. Your kernel must
export a recognized signature for the sendfile(2) system call
to use this module. Currently, that includes Linux, Solaris
and FreeBSD.

Installation

Download and install the latest package from the rubyforge.org
RubyGems repository.

$ sudo gem install sendfile

If the tests all pass, you’re ready to start using sendfile.

Usage

Here’s a small example of a use of IO#sendfile.

require ‘socket’ require ‘rubygems’ require ‘sendfile’ s = TCPSocket.new ‘yourdomain.com’, 5000 File.open ‘somefile.txt’ { |f| s.sendfile f } s.close

See the test scripts for more examples on how to use this
module.