Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Tue, 26 Jan 2021 10:49:11 -0800 | Subject | Re: Splicing to/from a tty |
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On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 10:07 PM Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 11:11:42AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > I agree that it would be better fixed by just having sendfile() > > basically turn into splice() for the pipe target case, but I haven't > > seen any patches from you, so I assume it wasn't 100% trivial. > > Just to make clear - sendfile() regular-to-pipe is *not* the same > issue as splice to/from tty.
That's not what I meant.
sendfile() to a pipe is basically the same thing as splice() to a pipe.
Except I think it might have different looping behavior. And as you noted earlier, the error returns may be randomly different.
Linus
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