From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750970AbWDUGFB (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Apr 2006 02:05:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750981AbWDUGFB (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Apr 2006 02:05:01 -0400 Received: from smtp105.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.85.215]:50604 "HELO smtp105.mail.mud.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750924AbWDUGFA (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Apr 2006 02:05:00 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=n3u/H8esciifmIR4sIZkDRuxuGraWRjcj6viVlv8tQeVoUUViDI3QUIY6HznIq+yrA7qWHY8clowsqPkyfJj0IIttcIAamO+7hwzWlclH8cVGw4aGjIieZWEXxiuZb0GL6K7WhNKIp3x0o6rTEEAKcwpPDcgAompftweFgDZN2I= ; Message-ID: <4447E702.6050906@yahoo.com.au> Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 05:54:42 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051007 Debian/1.7.12-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jens Axboe CC: "David S. Miller" , torvalds@osdl.org, diegocg@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.17-rc2 References: <20060420145041.GE4717@suse.de> <20060420.122647.03915644.davem@davemloft.net> <20060420193430.GH4717@suse.de> <20060420.123948.52057640.davem@davemloft.net> <20060420194429.GK4717@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20060420194429.GK4717@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jens Axboe wrote: > It's up to the user, any non-dumb app would use SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK and > avoid blocking ofcourse. BTW. How come you don't just set the pipe's fds non blocking instead of using that flag? Any reason? -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com