Re: [PATCH 0/3] vmsplice: make vmsplice a trivial wrapper for preadv2/pwritev2

Christian Brauner <[email protected]> Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:07:50 +0200

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> After this patch, step b) is a straight copy which means step d)'s
> fixup doesn't modify what's in the pipe. This could be fixed up in
> libfuse to not depend on modify-after-vmsplice, but I don't think this
> helps for applications using already-released libfuse versions. I
> think this patch needs to be reverted.

Note, nothing was merged. I deliberately kept in -next though for a long
time to see how quickly we'd see regressions.