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Date: Fri,  5 May 2006 08:19:13 -0700
From: "David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] kernel development: how not to
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Is the the vmslice that Linus told BSD people they were a bunch of
retards for not having?



On 5/5/06, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> the linux guys decided to implement system calls
> "splice" and "tee".  splice concatinates the pages from
> two files -- the vm equivalent of "cat a b".  tee
> is the vm equivalent of its namesake.
>
>         http://lwn.net/Articles/181169/#Comments
>
> the best part is the conclusion -- "needs a bit more work".
> ha!
>
> - erik
>