On Fri, Mar 31 2006, [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.
I definitely see some valid reasons for adding a file offset instead of
using ->f_pos, I'll leave that decision up to Linus though. Linus?
--
Jens Axboe
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