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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK semantics...
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 15:24:30 -0700 (PDT)
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On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Ack. The original intent was for the flag to affect the buffering, not the 
> end points.

Side note, in case it wasn't clear: I added Jens to the cc, because in the 
end my "original intent" probably doesn't matter all that much. I may have 
set up the basic ideas and so on, but I never wrote any apps that use it, 
and Jens has done most of the actual fixes since.

So give "my original intent" the weight (or rather, lack there-of) that it 
deserves. 

		Linus