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On 3/31/06, tridge@samba.org <tridge@samba.org> wrote: > Linus and Jens, > > Stephen Rothwell just pointed me at the new splice() interface. Looks > really nice! > > One comment though. Could we add a off_t to splice to make it more > like pwrite() ? Otherwise threads could get painful with race > conditions between the seek and the splice() call. > > Either that or add psplice() like this: > > ssize_t psplice(int fdin, int fdout, size_t len, off_t ofs, unsigned flags); > > where ofs sets the offset to read from fdin. > > Cheers, Tridge Maybe "ssize_t psplice(int fdin, int fdout, size_t len, off_t fdin_ofs, unsigned flags);" would be better at documenting that the offset is for the input? Or maybe adding also a fdout_ofs for when fdout is also a file... -- Greetz, Antonio Vargas aka winden of network http://wind.codepixel.com/ windNOenSPAMntw@gmail.com thesameasabove@amigascne.org Every day, every year you have to work you have to study you have to scene. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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