Re: Splicing to/from a tty

[Johannes Berg]

On Thu, 2021-01-21 at 07:05 +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:

> I think that most users of splice() on sockets got used to falling back
> to recv/send on splice failure due to various cases not being supported
> historically (UNIX family sockets immediately come to my mind but I seem
> to remember other combinations).

Note, however, that I got here because cgit, if using sendfile(), does
*not* fall back if it fails (and thus my git tree view is currently down
because I haven't downgraded the kernel so far). That may not be common
for splice() though.

johannes