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You're talking about memfd, I think? That has nothing to do with kdbus in particular. It's an independent syscall that replaces many use cases for splice/vmspli
by vezzy-fnord 12y ago
You're talking about memfd, I think? That has nothing to do with kdbus in particular. It's an independent syscall that replaces many use cases for splice/vmsplice, even though it was introduced as part of the kdbus project - it's still a separate thing.
- the_mitsuhiko 12y ago> You're talking about memfd, I think? That has nothing to do with kdbus in particular. It's an independent syscall that replaces many use cases for splice/vmsplice, even though it was introduced as part of the kdbus project - it's still a separate thing. That was created for KDBUS but has more use than than being used for KDBUS exclusively. It still was written for KDBUS.
- vezzy-fnord 12y agoAnd so it was accepted and merged. That something good came out of kdbus is excellent, but that's no justification to merge in the whole package. A ton of proposed kernel additions end up like this - a few good ideas refined and accepted, and the rest thrown out.