fuse: support splice() reading from fuse device
Allow userspace filesystem implementation to use splice() to read from
the fuse device.
The userspace filesystem can now transfer data coming from a WRITE
request to an arbitrary file descriptor (regular file, block device or
socket) without having to go through a userspace buffer.
The semantics of using splice() to read messages are:
1) with a single splice() call move the whole message from the fuse
device to a temporary pipe
2) read the header from the pipe and determine the message type
3a) if message is a WRITE then splice data from pipe to destination
3b) else read rest of message to userspace buffer
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
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