Re: [PATCH liburing v1 4/4] man/io_uring_prep_splice.3: Explain more about io_uring_prep_splice()
From: Jens Axboe
Date: Thu Jan 12 2023 - 13:19:23 EST
On 1/12/23 10:26 AM, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
> Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> From: Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> I have found two people confused about the io_uring_prep_splice()
>> function, especially on the offset part. The current manpage for
>> io_uring_prep_splice() doesn't tell about the rules of the offset
>> arguments.
>>
>> Despite these rules are already noted in "man 2 io_uring_enter",
>> people who want to know about this prep function will prefer to read
>> "man 3 io_uring_prep_splice".
>>
>> Let's explain it there!
>
> Hi Ammar,
>
> A few suggestions below:
[snip]
Shoot, missed this. Ammar, can you send a fixup patch with the below
suggestions?
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Jens Axboe