Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261769AbVASQ3N (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:29:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261770AbVASQ3N (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:29:13 -0500 Received: from ipcop.bitmover.com ([192.132.92.15]:46242 "EHLO work.bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261769AbVASQ3L (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:29:11 -0500 Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:29:02 -0800 From: Larry McVoy To: Linus Torvalds Cc: William Lee Irwin III , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Larry McVoy Subject: Re: Make pipe data structure be a circular list of pages, rather than Message-ID: <20050119162902.GA20656@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , Linus Torvalds , William Lee Irwin III , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Larry McVoy References: <200501070313.j073DCaQ009641@hera.kernel.org> <20050107034145.GI9636@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 654 Lines: 13 I think you are going to regret making splice() a system call, it shouldn't be, you'll find cases where it won't work. Make it a library call built out of pull() and push(), see my original postings on this and you'll follow the logic. Making splice a system call is like putting ftp into the kernel, not a good idea. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - 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/