On Wed, Mar 14 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > Here are a couple of splice patches I found when digging in the area. > I could be wrong, so I'd appreciate confirmation. > > Untested other than compile, because I don't have a good splice test > setup. > > Considering these are data corruption / information leak issues, then > we could do worse than to merge them in 2.6.21 and earlier stable > trees. > > Does anyone really use splice stealing?
That's a damn shame, I'd greatly prefer if we can try and fix it instead. Splice isn't really all that used yet to my knowledge, but stealing is one of the niftier features I think. Otherwise you're just copying data again. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
