Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] splice: Fix corruption of spliced data after splice() returns

[David Howells]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > So what's the API that provides the semantics of _copying_?
> 
> It's called "read()" and "write()".

What about copy_file_range()?  That seems to fall back to splicing if not
directly implemented by the filesystem.  It looks like the manpage for that
needs updating too - or should that actually copy?

David