# The goal of this is to use a synthetic (non-IO) reader # to trigger the read/write loop of IO.copy_stream, # bypassing in-kernel mechanisms like sendfile for zero copy, # so we wrap the /dev/zero IO object: class Zero def initialize @n = 100000 @in = File.open('/dev/zero', 'rb') end def read(len, buf) return if (@n -= 1) == 0 @in.read(len, buf) end end begin require 'socket' src = Zero.new rd, wr = UNIXSocket.pair pid = fork do wr.close buf = String.new while rd.read(16384, buf) end end rd.close IO.copy_stream(src, wr) rescue Errno::ENOENT, NotImplementedError, NameError # not *nix: missing /dev/zero, fork, or UNIXSocket rescue LoadError # no socket? ensure wr.close if wr Process.waitpid(pid) if pid end if IO.respond_to?(:copy_stream)