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From: Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 01:17:52 -0700

> Is any of this documented anywhere? I'd think that any new userspace
> interfaces should have man pages explaining their use and some example
> code before getting merged into the kernel to shake out any interface
> problems.

Get real.

Nobody made this requirement for things like splice() et al.

I think people are being mostly very unreasonable in the
demands they are making upon Evgeniy.  It will only serve
to discourage the one person who is doing work to solve
these problems.