Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 May 2013 12:50:20 -0700 | From | Zach Brown <> | Subject | Re: [RFC v0 1/4] vfs: add copy_range syscall and vfs entry point |
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On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 07:47:19PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote: > Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 07:44:05PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote: > > > Why introduce a new syscall instead of extending sys_splice? > > > > Personally, I think it's ugly to have different operations use the same > > syscall just because their arguments match. > > Fair enough. I think adding a (currently unused) flags parameter would > make sense for future-proofing.
Yeah, that seems reasonble.
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