From: Theodore Ts'o <redacted>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 13:58:06 -0500

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 01:24:45PM -0500, David Miller wrote:

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And then if some fundamental part of userland (glibc, klibc, etc.) finds
a useful way to use splice for a fundamental operation, we're back to
square one.

I'll note that the applications for these super-tiny kernels are
places where it's not likely they would be using glibc at all; think
very tiny embedded systems.  The userspace tends to be highly
restricted for the same space reasons why there is an effort to make
the kernel as small as possible.

This is why I mentioned klibc, in order to avoid replies like your's,
it seems I have failed.