linux-kernel - Re: SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK semantics...

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0910011521550.6996@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 1 Oct 2009 15:24:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com,
	vl@...ba.org, opurdila@...acom.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK semantics...



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
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