On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 9:56 AM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > What's the point of all those contortions, anyway? You only need it for > iovec case; don't mix doing that and turning it into flavour-independent > primitive. Good point, making it specific to iovec only gets rid of a lot of special cases and worries. This is fairly specialized, no need to always cater to every possible case. Linus