From: "Pádraig Brady" <P@draigBrady.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>,
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cotte@de.ibm.com, hugh@veritas.com,
neilb@suse.de, zanussi@us.ibm.com,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
hch@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sendfile removal
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:22:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <466047BB.3040302@draigBrady.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <466040C1.6030004@zytor.com>
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> As I said, this new non blocking feature on the input side (disk), is
>> nice and usefull. (For people scared by splice() syscall :) )
>>
>> Just have to mention it is a change of behavior, and documentation
>> probably needs to reflect this change. "Since linux 2.6.23, sendfile()
>> repects O_NONBLOCK on in_fd as well"
>>
>
> Fair enough. Unix has traditionally not acknowledged the possibility of
> nonblocking I/O on conventional files, for some odd reason.
That reminds me of this patch:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/10/1/217
which went in for a while but was reverted:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/10/17/17
Pádraig
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-01 16:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-31 10:33 [PATCH] sendfile removal Jens Axboe
2007-05-31 10:47 ` Jens Axboe
2007-05-31 10:47 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-05-31 10:53 ` Jens Axboe
2007-06-01 4:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-01 5:41 ` Jens Axboe
2007-06-01 5:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-01 7:22 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-06-01 15:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-01 16:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-01 16:47 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-06-01 16:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-02 15:02 ` Jens Axboe
2007-06-02 15:01 ` Jens Axboe
2007-06-02 15:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-02 16:35 ` Jens Axboe
2007-06-03 13:05 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-06-03 13:05 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-06-03 14:29 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-06-03 14:29 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-06-04 0:46 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-06-04 0:46 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-06-04 8:05 ` Jens Axboe
2007-06-04 11:22 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-06-04 11:22 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-06-01 16:22 ` Pádraig Brady [this message]
2007-05-31 10:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-31 11:05 ` Jens Axboe
2007-05-31 12:26 ` Neil Brown
2007-05-31 12:27 ` Jens Axboe
2007-06-01 2:44 ` [PATCH] sendfile removal (nfsd update) Neil Brown
2007-06-01 5:44 ` Jens Axboe
2007-06-01 8:01 ` Jens Axboe
2007-06-01 8:15 ` [PATCH] sendfile removal Jens Axboe
2007-05-31 11:04 ` Carsten Otte
2007-05-31 11:06 ` Jens Axboe
2007-05-31 15:33 ` Tom Zanussi
2007-05-31 19:01 ` Jens Axboe
2007-05-31 17:06 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-05-31 17:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-31 19:03 ` Jens Axboe
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