10 Jul
2014
10 Jul
'14
10:04 p.m.
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 12:06:58PM -0400, Noel Chiappa wrote:
Stages would have to have some way to say 'I am
not now holding any buffered
data', and only when that state was true could they be spliced out. Or there
could be some signal defined which means 'go into "not holding any buffered
data" state'. At which point my proposed splice() system call might be some
use... :-)
Heh. I already claimed splice(2) back in 1998; the Linux guys did implement
part of it but never really carried to the logical end I envisioned:
http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/bitmover/lm/papers/splice.ps
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