On 3/31/06, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> Linus and Jens,
>
> Stephen Rothwell just pointed me at the new splice() interface. Looks
> really nice!
>
> One comment though. Could we add a off_t to splice to make it more
> like pwrite() ? Otherwise threads could get painful with race
> conditions between the seek and the splice() call.
>
> Either that or add psplice() like this:
>
> ssize_t psplice(int fdin, int fdout, size_t len, off_t ofs, unsigned flags);
>
> where ofs sets the offset to read from fdin.
>
> Cheers, Tridge
Maybe "ssize_t psplice(int fdin, int fdout, size_t len, off_t
fdin_ofs, unsigned flags);"
would be better at documenting that the offset is for the input? Or
maybe adding also a fdout_ofs for when fdout is also a file...
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