The sendfile() system call is used to send a file directly over the
network without having to perform many separate send() commands.
In previous releases, sendfile() did not work properly with large files, that is, when an
application made a call to sendfile() and was compiled with the following compiler flags: LARGEFILE(64)_SOURCE and/or FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64.
These flags allowed a 32-bit application to access large files that
were over 2GB in size.
These large file applications should be recompiled on 11i.
If the 'nbytes' parameter is not set to zero and
they are not recompiled, these applications will not execute on
11i. To work correctly, the large file applications need to be recoded
with the new bsize_t and sbsize_t types. See the sendfile(2) and sendfile64(2) manpages
for more information.
32-bit or 64-bit applications that use sendfile() and are not compiled
with the LARGEFILE(64)_SOURCE or FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 flags
do not need to be changed or recompiled for
HP-UX 11i.
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