Zach Brown <z...@redhat.com> wrote: > 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.
Fair enough. I think adding a (currently unused) flags parameter would make sense for future-proofing. If this were extended to sockets/pipes, peek/nonblock/waitall flags may be added. Basically, something like splice/tee, but without needing to create/manage a pipe in userspace or needing extra syscalls/looping. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
