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From: Askar Safin <safinaskar@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2023 00:34:44 +0300
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Subject: Re: Avoid unprivileged splice(file->)/(->socket) pipe exclusion
To: =?UTF-8?Q?Ahelenia_Ziemia=C5=84ska?= <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
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Hi, Ahelenia Ziemia=C5=84ska! Thanks a lot for all this splice-related hard=
 work!

In https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=3DwgG_2cmHgZwKjydi7=3DiimyHyN8aessnbM=
9XQ9ufbaUz9g@mail.gmail.com/
Linus said:
> I have grown to pretty much hate
> splice() over the years, just because it's been a constant source of
> sorrow in so many ways.

> It's just that it was never as lovely and as useful as it promised to
> be. So I'd actually be more than happy to just say "let's decommission
> splice entirely, just keeping the interfaces alive for backwards
> compatibility"

So probably we should do this as Linus suggested? I. e. fully remove
splice by replacing it with trivial read-write?

--=20
Askar Safin