On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 11:49:53AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 11:45 AM Al Viro <viro@zeniv-ca> wrote: > > > > do_splice_direct() does something that do_splice() won't - it > > handles non-pipe to non-pipe case. Which is how sendfile(2) is > > normally used, of course. > > Yeah, I agree, it's better if we do the pipe case specially, but if > it's too painful for a stable backport I'll certainly take the > one-liner.. > > Btw, your email setup is broken. Your emails now have a "From:" line like > this: > > From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv-ca> > > and that is not a valid email address.
Just noticed, should be fixed now...