Re: copy on write for splice() from file to pipe?

From: Jeremy Allison
Date: Fri Feb 10 2023 - 13:20:14 EST


On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 09:57:20AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski via samba-technical wrote:

(And if Samba needs to make sure that future writes don't change the
outgoing data even two seconds later when the data has been sent but
not acked, then maybe a fancy API could be added to help, or maybe
Samba shouldn't be using zero copy IO in the first place!)

Samba doesn't need any of this. The simplest thing to do is
to restrict splice-based zero-copy IO to files leased by
a single client, where exclusive access to changes is controled
by the client redirector.