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SubjectRe: Splicing to/from a tty
On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 09:53:11AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 05:46:33PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > For my case, I attempted to instead implement splice_write and
> > > splice_read in tty_fops; I managed to get splice_write working calling
> > > ld->ops->write, but splice_read is not so simple because the
> > > tty_ldisc_ops read method expects a userspace buffer. So I cannot see
> > > how to implement this without either (a) using set_fs, or (b)
> > > implementing iter ops on all line disciplines.
> > >
> > > Is splice()ing between a tty and a pipe worth supporting at all? Not a
> > > big deal for my use case at least, but it used to work.
> >
> > Is it even strictly related to the tty?
> >
> > I was just now looking into why my cgit/fcgi/nginx setup no longer
> > works, and the reason is getting -EINVAL from sendfile() when the input
> > is a file and the output is a pipe().
>
> Yes, pipes do not support ->splice_write currenly. I think just wiring
> up iter_file_splice_write would work. Al?

I'd rather have sendfile(2) do what splice(2) does and handle pipes
directly. Let me take a look,,,

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