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Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 17:06:24 +1100
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] splice support #2
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From: tridge@samba.org
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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
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