> This is going to be in 2.2, btw. The changes are so small and so obviously
> have to work that it would be ridiculous not to have this - the only
> question is whether I'll try to make it a "copyfd()" system call instead,
> falling back on read+write when I can't use the page cache directly. I
> suspect I won't.
It seems to me that the Right Way to do this is to push the "acting"
interface down to the file_operations.read level. Is this too big of a
change for the feature freeze that we are under in theory?
-=- James Mastros
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