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On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 13:29 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> But if we bring the splice support,

Even simply write() from the mmap() buffer isn't terribly expensive. But
yeah, once we fix splice not to always copy that could be even better.

Splice() is on the todo list, but it needs significant user-interface
work and I'm rather busy..