A sysctl to disable splice vmsplice and tee syscalls
Vengeur Masqué <[email protected]> Thu, 21 May 2026 17:52:07 +0200
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Hello, I posted a patch a while ago on the forum, maybe not in the right section: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=1177670 The Copy Fail rabbit hole went deeper than expected. If I am not mistaken, few software use splice() as it is mainly an optimization that is needed for very high data throughput. Wouldn't most sysadmins feel safer without it? I heard about the proposed "kill switch" in the Linux kernel but it hash not made its way in the main kernel sources yet. This little patch will probably be useless when it does.