Re: Splicing to/from a tty

[Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 10:49:11AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 10:07 PM Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 11:11:42AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > >
> > > I agree that it would be better fixed by just having sendfile()
> > > basically turn into splice() for the pipe target case, but I haven't
> > > seen any patches from you, so I assume it wasn't 100% trivial.
> >
> > Just to make clear - sendfile() regular-to-pipe is *not* the same
> > issue as splice to/from tty.
> 
> That's not what I meant.
> 
> sendfile() to a pipe is basically the same thing as splice() to a pipe.
> 
> Except I think it might have different looping behavior. And as you
> noted earlier, the error returns may be randomly different.

Sure.  What I'm saying is that there'd been two different regressions
discussed in that thread, and the one dealt with by this patch series
is not the one brought up in the original posting.  IOW, it's an
alternative not to "let's add ->splice_{read,write}() for tty" stuff
but to "let's add ->splice_write() for pipes" one-liner.

I do not doubt that you know that.  But the thread had been confusing
enough (hell, the sendfile-related subthread has kept the original
subject explicitly refering to tty), so I wanted to avoid any confusion
for somebody looking through it a year or two down the road.