Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Mon, 18 Jan 2021 11:46:42 -0800 | Subject | Re: Splicing to/from a tty |
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On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 11:35 AM Al Viro <viro@zeniv-ca> wrote: > > I'd rather have sendfile(2) do what splice(2) does and handle pipes > directly. Let me take a look,,,
It's not technically just the sendfile() thing. Some things do sendfile "internally" (ie they use do_splice_direct()).
Although maybe they always happen just on non-pipe destinations (ie file-to-file copy). I didn't check.
But particularly if it can be handled in do_splice_direct(), that would be a good thing.
Linus
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