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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Slavomir Kaslev <kaslevs@vmware.com>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] fs: Make splice() and tee() take into account O_NONBLOCK flag on pipes
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2019 16:09:22 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wh0ikMcREn-RLh-7TEeL28wj1-bHNTRsqpW_7dPuO7cAA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wipy3J4r-dLim3QvNA2jVPi2uPCi=rTDiMYikBi5OiKnQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 4:04 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> Of course, if it turns out that this breaks something that assumes
> that splice blocks purely based on the SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK flag, we'll
> have to revert it. Looking at the history of splice, it does look like
> it has always ignored O_NONBLOCK.

Note that the "arguably buggy" argument is not an actual real argument
in the presence of regressions. It's more a "I wish reality wasn't
that way" argument, but it doesn't actually _change_ reality.

Of course, in the case of sendfile() (which is where that comment is),
I don't think we ever really even tested it either way.

                 Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-05  0:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-07 15:45 [RFC PATCH] fs: Make splice() and tee() take into account O_NONBLOCK flag on pipes Slavomir Kaslev
2019-02-13 14:44 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-02-19 17:12   ` Steven Rostedt
2019-03-04 15:58     ` Steven Rostedt
2019-03-05  0:04       ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-05  0:09         ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2019-03-05  1:54           ` Steven Rostedt

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