27 Dec
2020
27 Dec
'20
11:14 p.m.
On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 1:25 PM Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk wrote:
Is there any point in not doing the same (scripted, obviously) for all instances with .read == seq_read? IIRC, Christoph even posted something along those lines, but it went nowhere for some reason...
I'd rather limit splice (and kernel_read too, for that matter) as much as possible. It was a mistake originally to allow it everywhere, and it's come back to bite us.
So I'd rather have people notice these odd corner cases and get them fixed one by one than just say "anything goes".
There's hopefully not any actually left anyway...
Linus