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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] splice support #2
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 00:33:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060402223330.GA1611@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060331070931.GA25853@elte.hu>

Hi!

> We should extend the userspace API so that it is prepared to receive 
> 'excess data' via a separate 'flush excess data to' file descriptor:
> 
> 	sys_splice(fd_in, fd_out, fd_flush, size,
>                    max_flush_size, *bytes_flushed)

I still see problems with error handling here. You get -EIO to
userspace. How do you know if it is error reading fd_in, or error
writing fd_out?
								Pavel
-- 
Picture of sleeping (Linux) penguin wanted...

  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-02 22:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-30 10:06 [PATCH] splice support #2 Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 10:16 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-30 10:24   ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 11:16     ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-30 11:55       ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 12:30         ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 12:30           ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 19:19           ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-30 12:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-03-30 12:05   ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 12:10     ` Ingo Molnar
2006-03-30 12:16       ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 12:38         ` Ingo Molnar
2006-03-30 12:42           ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 12:42             ` Ingo Molnar
2006-03-30 13:02               ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 14:20           ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-03-30 17:02     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-30 17:17       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-31 20:38         ` Hua Zhong
2006-03-31 20:49           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-30 20:48       ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-30 21:16         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-31  0:59           ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-31  2:43             ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-31  2:51               ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-31  3:20                 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-31  6:35                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-03-31  7:09           ` Ingo Molnar
2006-04-02 22:33             ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2006-03-31 12:46           ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-03-31  9:56       ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-31 12:18       ` Ingo Molnar
2006-03-31 12:23         ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-31 12:26           ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-31 12:47             ` Ingo Molnar
2006-03-31 18:18               ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-31 12:27       ` Ingo Molnar
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-03-31  0:03 linux
2006-03-31  6:06 tridge
2006-03-31  6:59 ` Antonio Vargas
2006-03-31  7:37   ` tridge
2006-03-31  9:57 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-31 19:11   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-31 19:40     ` Jens Axboe
2006-04-04 17:16       ` Andy Lutomirski
2006-04-04 17:34         ` Jens Axboe
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     [not found] ` <5W48C-3KW-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <5W48D-3KW-21@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <5W8OT-2ms-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]       ` <5WcfS-7x9-23@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]         ` <5WcIT-8nr-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]           ` <5Wm5I-53z-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]             ` <5XjoS-8t9-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-04-03 12:39               ` Bodo Eggert

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