On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 07:59 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Btw, since you apparently have a real case - is the "splice to file" > always just an append? IOW, if I'm not right in assuming that the only > sane thing people would reasonable care about is "append to a file", then > holler now. My use case is just to move the data from the ring buffer into a file (or network) as fast as possible. It creates a new file and all additions are "append to a file". I believe Mathieu does the same. With me, you are correct. -- Steve -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>