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DateThu, 30 Mar 2006 14:38:05 +0200
FromIngo Molnar <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] splice support #2

* 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.

Ingo
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