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@@ -104,33 +104,6 @@ The
implementation of
.Fn sendfile
is "zero-copy", meaning that it has been optimized so that copying of the file data is avoided.
-.Pp
-In the non-threaded library
-.Fn sendfile
-is implemented as the
-.Va sendfile
-syscall.
-.Pp
-In the threaded library, the
-.Va sendfile
-syscall is assembled to
-.Fn _thread_sys_sendfile
-and
-.Fn sendfile
-is implemented as a function which locks
-.Fa fd
-for reading and
-.Fa s
-for writing, then calls
-.Fn _thread_sys_sendfile .
-If the call to
-.Fn _thread_sys_sendfile
-would block, a context switch is performed. Before returning,
-.Fn sendfile
-unlocks
-.Fa fd
-and
-.Fa s .
.Sh RETURN VALUES
.Rv -std sendfile
.Sh ERRORS
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