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.