From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] Excise process from a pipe
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 09:04:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140710160454.GI24876@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140710160658.DCB1318C09E@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 12:06:58PM -0400, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> Stages would have to have some way to say 'I am not now holding any buffered
> data', and only when that state was true could they be spliced out. Or there
> could be some signal defined which means 'go into "not holding any buffered
> data" state'. At which point my proposed splice() system call might be some
> use... :-)
Heh. I already claimed splice(2) back in 1998; the Linux guys did implement
part of it but never really carried to the logical end I envisioned:
http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/bitmover/lm/papers/splice.ps
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-10 16:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-10 16:06 Noel Chiappa
2014-07-10 16:04 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
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2014-07-18 15:33 Noel Chiappa
2014-07-17 15:42 Noel Chiappa
2014-07-16 21:31 Noel Chiappa
2014-07-14 15:12 Noel Chiappa
2014-07-14 14:13 Doug McIlroy
2014-07-10 16:12 Noel Chiappa
2014-07-10 15:10 Noel Chiappa
2014-07-10 15:11 ` Larry McVoy
2014-07-10 2:49 [TUHS] Subject:unpipeIt'seasy for a process to insert a new process intoapipelineeither upstream or down unpipe Doug McIlroy
2014-07-10 4:52 ` [TUHS] Excise process from a pipe Warren Toomey
2014-07-10 5:00 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-07-10 5:06 ` Christopher Vance
2014-07-10 8:43 ` Warren Toomey
2014-07-10 12:03 ` Doug McIlroy
2014-07-10 12:04 ` Doug McIlroy
2014-07-10 14:45 ` Larry McVoy
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