On 06/25/2014 04:12 PM, Cyril Hrubis wrote: > This case is no-op and no error is returned. > > See fs/splice.c vmsplice syscall which contains: > > if (unlikely(nr_segs > UIO_MAXIOV)) > return -EINVAL; > else if (unlikely(!nr_segs)) > return 0; > > and looking at the git log suggests that this snipped was always there. Apologies for the delay, Cyril (and thanks for pinging). I've applied this patch now. Cheers, Michael > Signed-off-by: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@xxxxxxx> > --- > man2/vmsplice.2 | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/man2/vmsplice.2 b/man2/vmsplice.2 > index 35ab07f..a9ad786 100644 > --- a/man2/vmsplice.2 > +++ b/man2/vmsplice.2 > @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ either not valid, or doesn't refer to a pipe. > .TP > .B EINVAL > .I nr_segs > -is 0 or greater than > +is greater than > .BR IOV_MAX ; > or memory not aligned if > .B SPLICE_F_GIFT > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
