On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 07:44:05PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote: > Why introduce a new syscall instead of extending sys_splice? Personally, I think it's ugly to have different operations use the same syscall just because their arguments match. But that preference aside, sure, if the consensus is that we'd rather use the splice() entry point then I can duck tape the pieces together to make it work. > If the user doesn't need a out offset, then sendfile() should also be > able to transparently utilize COPY/CLONE_RANGE, too. Perhaps, yeah. - z -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
