Jens,
> > Yes, I understand what the code is doing, but *why* do
> > things this way? (To put things another way: why not *always
> > have splice() update the file offset?) I realise there may be
> > some good reason for this, and if there is, it will go into the
> > man page!
>
> The good reason is why update the current position? I just told the
> kernel to ignore the current position and use the given offset, why
> would I bother updating the current position? The whole point of
> providing an offset is to ignore the current position.
>
> I must say I cannot understand why you are confused or find this
> illogical, it makes perfect sense to me.
Yes, now it's clear to me too.
[...]
> > No! It does not! See the sendfile.2 man page: "sendfile()
> > does not modify the current file offset of in_fd."
>
> I didn't read the man page, I read the source. And it clearly updates
> the file offset, in fact the actual sendfile portion is just a supplied
> actor to the generic page cache read functions.
Doh! I took what I "knew", re-read the sendfile.2 manual page to
check, misread the source, and then wrote an inadequate
test program :-{. (The sendfile manual page is now fixed.)
> If you don't believe me, read the source and do another test app.
> splice() behaves identically, as previously stated.
Now I believe you; sorry to have wasted your time...
Cheers,
Michael
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