Re: [Qemu-devel] Transforming stdin and stdout pair into a socket

Paul Brook
2009-05-11T23:07:23Z

> I've seen socat, and I could use it as you described. My only
> objection to this solution is that there is an unneeded process in the
> middle that just pipes data around...
>
> (Instead of socat, I think it would be more efficient to just write
> a simple application that uses the "new" Linux syscall "splice" that
> I've just found by mistake yesterday...)

In that case you need to fix socat to use splice() when available. I have a
hard time believing socat adds measurable overhead, especially if you're
already tunnelling over ssh.

Paul