[Web-SIG] Use cases for file-like objects (was Re: Bill's comments on WSGI draft 1.4)

[Jp Calderone]

Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> [snip]
> 
> Before you implement it, I should warn you that I'm thinking 
> 'file_wrapper' was a bad idea, and that there's a better way to do all 
> this.
> 
> As I understand them, the current use cases for file-like objects are:
> 
>  1. sendfile(fileno()) for fast file-descriptor copying (Unix-like OSes 
> only, and only single-thread synchronous servers like Apache 1.x or CGI)

   FWIW, there's a non-zero probability Twisted will support this at 
some point in the future.  A (horrible, hackish) proof of concept 
already exists.

   Jp