Re: Linux 2.6.17-rc2

From: Nick Piggin
Date: Fri Apr 21 2006 - 02:05:20 EST


Jens Axboe wrote:

It's up to the user, any non-dumb app would use SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK and
avoid blocking ofcourse.

BTW. How come you don't just set the pipe's fds non blocking
instead of using that flag? Any reason?

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