Re: Splicing to/from a tty

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Jan 21 2021 - 00:53:43 EST


On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 5:45 PM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> splice() triggers an error for seekable destination with O_APPEND and
> with NULL off_out.

Ok, that's just broken.

> Same for splice() to socket with
> fcntl(sock_fd, F_SETFL, O_APPEND);
> done first.

Same.

As long as you don't pass a position pointer, I think both should just work.

Not that I imagine it matters for a lot of people..

Linus

Linus