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
struct pipe_inode_info * pipe
pipe to splice from
struct file * out
socket to write to
loff_t * ppos
position in out
size_t len
number of bytes to splice
unsigned int flags
splice modifier flags
Description
Will send len
bytes from the pipe to a network socket. No data copying
is involved.