On Thu, 31 May 2007 12:33:16 +0200
Jens Axboe <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This patch removes the ->sendfile() hook from the file_operations
> structure, and replaces the sys_sendfile() mechanism to be based on
> ->splice_read() instead. There should be no functional changes.
>
> - retval = in_file->f_op->sendfile(in_file, ppos, count, file_send_actor, out_file);
> + fl = 0;
> + if (in_file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK)
> + fl = SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK;
> +
> + retval = do_splice_direct(in_file, ppos, out_file, count, fl);
I like this, but are you sure it wont break user land ?
Some applications might react badly if sendfile() returns EAGAIN ?
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