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authorAskar Safin <safinaskar@mail.ru>2016-03-10 19:37:52 +0100
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2016-03-11 00:32:15 +0100
commit69fff5597032464ef0b863f0d4ce7dc532f654bd (patch)
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parentddef8b95739b9098fcdc8de7f2243fd083382b61 (diff)
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sendfile.2: Fix incorrect description in text referring to splice(2)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--man2/sendfile.24
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diff --git a/man2/sendfile.2 b/man2/sendfile.2
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@@ -234,8 +234,8 @@ has consumed the transferred data.
The Linux-specific
.BR splice (2)
-call supports transferring data between arbitrary files
-(e.g., a pair of sockets).
+call supports transferring data between arbitrary file descriptors
+provided one (or both) of them is a pipe.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR copy_file_range (2),
.BR mmap (2),