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From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Data corruption issue with splice() on 2.6.27.10
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 07:16:51 +0000
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On 06-01-2009 19:15, Willy Tarreau wrote:
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> Ah, so you might also have discovered a few annoyances with the API, eg
> the fact that splice() returns after the first read in non-blocking mode,
> as well as the fact that it never returns zero on close, but -EAGAIN,
> which requires an additional recv(MSG_PEEK) to distinguish between a
> close and a lack of data. But I leave that for a later discussion, let's
> address the corruption issue first.

FYI, this should be just fixed:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=4f7d54f59bc470f0aaa932f747a95232d7ebf8b1

Regards,
Jarek P.