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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 0/4] splice: Fix corruption in data spliced to pipe
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On Thursday, 29 June 2023 11:54:29 EDT, David Howells wrote:
> Matt Whitlock, Matthew Wilcox and Dave Chinner are of the opinion that data
> in the pipe must not be seen to change and that if it does, this is a bug.
> Apart from in one specific instance (vmsplice() with SPLICE_F_GIFT), the
> manual pages agree with them. I'm more inclined to adjust the
> documentation since the behaviour we have has been that way since 2005, I
> think.

Anecdotally, my use case had been working fine for years until I upgraded
from 5.15.x to 6.1.x in February of this year. That's when my backups
started being corrupted. I only noticed when I was trying to restore a lost
file from backup earlier this week.

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