GENERIC_SPLICE_SENDP
Section: splice API (9)
Updated: February 2011
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NAME
generic_splice_sendpage - splice data from a pipe to a socket
SYNOPSIS
-
ssize_t generic_splice_sendpage(struct pipe_inode_info * pipe, struct file * out, loff_t * ppos, size_t len, unsigned int flags);
ARGUMENTS
pipe
-
- pipe to splice from
out
-
socket to write to
ppos
-
position in
out
len
-
number of bytes to splice
flags
-
splice modifier flags
DESCRIPTION
Will send
len
bytes from the pipe to a network socket. No data copying is involved.
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