Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Mon, 18 Jan 2021 11:49:53 -0800 | Subject | Re: Splicing to/from a tty |
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On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 11:45 AM Al Viro <viro@zeniv-ca> wrote: > > do_splice_direct() does something that do_splice() won't - it > handles non-pipe to non-pipe case. Which is how sendfile(2) is > normally used, of course.
Yeah, I agree, it's better if we do the pipe case specially, but if it's too painful for a stable backport I'll certainly take the one-liner..
Btw, your email setup is broken. Your emails now have a "From:" line like this:
From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv-ca>
and that is not a valid email address.
Linus
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