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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: splice from half-closed socket returning -EAGAIN
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From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 08:22:52 +0000

> On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 12:14:01AM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> > Is it really the same condition in the end?
> 
> Yes!?

Indeed, as you explained in your follow-up, this splice
non-block flag is used to compute the socket timeout value
and thus it is in fact totally unnecessary.

I'll toss these checks in the net-2.6 tree, thanks!