What does vmsplice() add?
What does vmsplice() add?
Posted Apr 28, 2006 2:17 UTC (Fri) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322)In reply to: The tricky part... by axboe
Parent article: The splice() weekly news
Determining completion is indeed tricky, especially where remote hosts
are involved. But there are already two good choices for the interface:
write() blocks until the buffer may be reused by the application,
aio_write() instead posts a notification. What does vmsplice() add?
(Changing to a vector operation changes the names of the functions, but
not the nature of the question).