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This allows splicing zeroed pages into a pipe, and allows discarding pages from a pipe by splicing them to /dev/zero. Writing to /dev/zero should have the same effect as writing to /dev/null, and a "splice_write" implementation exists only for /dev/null. (The /dev/zero splice_read implementation could be optimized by pushing references to the global zero page to the pipe, but that's an optimization for another day.) Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann <max.kellermann@ionos.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230919073743.1066313-1-max.kellermann@ionos.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.