Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Jul 2013 09:03:11 -0700 | Subject | Re: splice vs execve lockdep trace. | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:51 PM, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote: > > But When i say "stale data" I mean that the data being returned > might not have originally belonged to the underlying file you are > reading.
We're still talking at cross purposes then.
How the hell do you handle mmap() and page faulting?
Because if you return *that* kind of stale data, than you're horribly horribly buggy. And you cannot *possibly* blame generic_file_splice_read() on that.
Linus
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