Re: [PATCH] sendfile removal

Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 
> As I said, this new non blocking feature on the input side (disk), is
> nice and usefull. (For people scared by splice() syscall :) )
> 
> Just have to mention it is a change of behavior, and documentation
> probably needs to reflect this change. "Since linux 2.6.23, sendfile()
> repects O_NONBLOCK on in_fd as well"
> 

Fair enough.  Unix has traditionally not acknowledged the possibility of
nonblocking I/O on conventional files, for some odd reason.

	-hpa
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