GENERIC_SPLICE_SENDP(9) splice API GENERIC_SPLICE_SENDP(9)NAMEgeneric_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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