Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/candidate-9.6.x' into candidate-…

…9.8.x

Signed-off-by: Jake Smith <[email protected]>

thorlcr/activities/nsplitter/thnsplitterslave.cpp

@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ class NSplitterSlaveActivity : public CSlaveActivity, implements ISharedSmartBuf
 
                 PARENT::start();
                 initMetaInfo(cachedMetaInfo);
-                cachedMetaInfo.suppressLookAhead = true;
+                cachedMetaInfo.suppressLookAhead = spill; // only suppress downstream lookaheads if this is a spilling splitter
 
                 calcMetaInfoSize(cachedMetaInfo, queryInput(0));