added --disable-sendfile

core/sendfile.c

@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ extern struct uwsgi_server uwsgi;
 
 // sendfile() abstraction
 ssize_t uwsgi_sendfile_do(int sockfd, int filefd, size_t pos, size_t len) {
+	// for platform not supporting sendfile we need to rely on boring read/write
+	// generally that platforms have very low memory, so use a 8k buffer
+	char buf[8192];
+
+	if (uwsgi.disable_sendfile) goto no_sendfile;
 
 #if defined(__FreeBSD__) || defined(__DragonFly__)
 	off_t sf_len = len;
@@ -18,12 +23,11 @@ ssize_t uwsgi_sendfile_do(int sockfd, int filefd, size_t pos, size_t len) {
 #elif defined(__linux__) || defined(__sun__)
 	off_t off = pos;
 	return sendfile(sockfd, filefd, &off, len);
-#else
-	// for platform not supporting sendfile we need to rely on boring read/write
-	// generally that platforms have very low memory, so use a 8k buffer
-	char buf[8192];
+#endif
+
+no_sendfile:
 	if (pos > 0) {
-		if (lseek(filefd, pos, SEEK_SET)) {
+		if (lseek(filefd, pos, SEEK_SET) < 0) {
 			uwsgi_error("uwsgi_sendfile_do()/seek()");
 			return -1;
 		}
@@ -34,7 +38,6 @@ ssize_t uwsgi_sendfile_do(int sockfd, int filefd, size_t pos, size_t len) {
 		return -1;
 	}
 	return write(sockfd, buf, rlen);
-#endif
 
 }
 

core/uwsgi.c

@@ -705,6 +705,8 @@ static struct uwsgi_option uwsgi_base_options[] = {
 	{"file-serve-mode", required_argument, 0, "set static file serving mode", uwsgi_opt_fileserve_mode, NULL, UWSGI_OPT_MIME},
 	{"fileserve-mode", required_argument, 0, "set static file serving mode", uwsgi_opt_fileserve_mode, NULL, UWSGI_OPT_MIME},
 
+	{"disable-sendfile", no_argument, 0, "disable sendfile() and rely on boring read()/write()", uwsgi_opt_true, &uwsgi.disable_sendfile, 0},
+
 	{"check-cache", optional_argument, 0, "check for response data in the specified cache (empty for default cache)", uwsgi_opt_set_str, &uwsgi.use_check_cache, 0},
 	{"close-on-exec", no_argument, 0, "set close-on-exec on sockets (could be required for spawning processes in requests)", uwsgi_opt_true, &uwsgi.close_on_exec, 0},
 	{"mode", required_argument, 0, "set uWSGI custom mode", uwsgi_opt_set_str, &uwsgi.mode, 0},

uwsgi.h

@@ -2037,6 +2037,7 @@ struct uwsgi_server {
 	struct uwsgi_thread **offload_thread;
 
 	int check_static_docroot;
+	int disable_sendfile;
 
 	char *daemonize;
 	char *daemonize2;