Re: sys_tee

[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>]

>Here follows an implementation of sys_tee. It works a little differently
>that one might expect from the name (hence it might need a change).

>So to implement an efficient tee, one would do something like:
>
>        /*
>         * Duplicate stdin to stdout
>         */
>        len = tee(STDIN_FILENO, STDOUT_FILENO, INT_MAX, SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK);

Creating new syscalls (and therefore library calls) always has potential of 
conflicting with user functions. Maybe new sys-lib-calls should show up as 
kernel_* under userspace.



Jan Engelhardt
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