[issue10882] Add os.sendfile()

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> Tested on Linux & FreeBSD - it should work on solaris but since it
> needs to link with the sendfile library and I have no idea how to link 
> the posix module with the sendfile library only on Solaris, i couldn't 
> test it.

Since the posix module is linked statically inside the interpreter, it probably needs some change in the base ldflags. I'll take a look when I have some time.

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