netdev - Re: splice from half-closed socket returning -EAGAIN

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Message-Id: <20090105.005249.193722431.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:52:49 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jarkao2@...il.com
Cc:	buytenh@...tstofly.org, jens.axboe@...cle.com, ben@...s.com,
	opurdila@...acom.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: splice from half-closed socket returning -EAGAIN

From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.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!
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