Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:42:06 +0200
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] splice support #2
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On Thu, Mar 30 2006, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * 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.

I hope so, too. I'll post a hopefully finished patch real soon, and then
the move pages addon afterwards (which works now).

-- 
Jens Axboe

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