Re: Splicing to/from a tty

[Al Viro]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 11:49:53AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 11:45 AM Al Viro <viro@zeniv-ca> wrote:
> >
> > do_splice_direct() does something that do_splice() won't - it
> > handles non-pipe to non-pipe case.  Which is how sendfile(2) is
> > normally used, of course.
> 
> Yeah, I agree, it's better if we do the pipe case specially, but if
> it's too painful for a stable backport I'll certainly take the
> one-liner..
> 
> Btw, your email setup is broken. Your emails now have a "From:" line like this:
> 
>     From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv-ca>
> 
> and that is not a valid email address.

Just noticed, should be fixed now...