On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Andrew Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 6, 2009, at 7:16 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote: >> >> I just came across tee() and splice(). They were introduced in >> 2.6.17, so relatively new, but not that new. >> >> http://linux.die.net/man/2/tee >> http://linux.die.net/man/2/splice >> >> They allow data to be copied from one file descriptor to another >> without the data coming into userspace. > > > Until the rsync algorithm is implemented in kernelspace, the file data will > have to be in userspace in order to be useful to rdiff-backup. :-) > I forgot about that aspect. I was just trying to think of a tool I use that could benefit from these new syscalls.
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