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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] vm: add a syscall to map a process memory into a pipe
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 16:44:06 -0800
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On Tue,  9 Jan 2018 08:30:49 +0200 Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> This patches introduces new process_vmsplice system call that combines
> functionality of process_vm_read and vmsplice.

All seems fairly strightforward.  The big question is: do we know that
people will actually use this, and get sufficient value from it to
justify its addition?