Re: [PATCH 1/2] io_uring/rw: fix link failure on successful pipe short reads

On Thu, Jun 11, 2026 at 12:36:22PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Not sure I follow - the "short read/write is an IOSQE_IO_LINK failure"
> is widely documented. So not sure I agree with this approach.

Thank you for the feedback.

Looking at the history, the IOSQE_IO_LINK short-read behaviour was
documented in 94163513 (Feb 2020), while 9a173346bd9e (Jan 2021) later 
changed __io_read() so that non-regular files no longer retry on short reads.
That issue-path change post-dates the documentation, 
and I am not sure the two were ever reconciled.

Is the documentation still the intended rule for pipes as well? If so, I
will drop this patch and treat the current completion behaviour as
correct.

Thanks,
Yang Xiuwei