Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:38:05 +0200 | | From | Ingo Molnar <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] splice support #2 |
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* Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote:
> > I agree with the purpose of making sys_splice() generic and in > > particular usable in scripts/shells where pipes are commonly used, but > > we should also fulfill the original promise (outlined 15 years ago or > > so) and not limit this to pipes. That way i could improve TUX to make > > use of it for example ;) > > There's absolutely no reason why we can't add fd -> fd splicing as > well, so no worries. Right now we just require a pipe transport. It's > extendable :-)
ok :) I think this code should be merged into v2.6.17 - it's very clean and unintrusive.
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