From 5274f052e7b3dbd81935772eb551dfd0325dfa9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jens Axboe Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:15:30 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Introduce sys_splice() system call This adds support for the sys_splice system call. Using a pipe as a transport, it can connect to files or sockets (latter as output only). From the splice.c comments: "splice": joining two ropes together by interweaving their strands. This is the "extended pipe" functionality, where a pipe is used as an arbitrary in-memory buffer. Think of a pipe as a small kernel buffer that you can use to transfer data from one end to the other. The traditional unix read/write is extended with a "splice()" operation that transfers data buffers to or from a pipe buffer. Named by Larry McVoy, original implementation from Linus, extended by Jens to support splicing to files and fixing the initial implementation bugs. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/syscalls.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/syscalls.h') diff --git a/include/linux/syscalls.h b/include/linux/syscalls.h index e487e3b60f6..e78ffc7d5b5 100644 --- a/include/linux/syscalls.h +++ b/include/linux/syscalls.h @@ -569,5 +569,7 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_newfstatat(unsigned int dfd, char __user * filename, asmlinkage long compat_sys_openat(unsigned int dfd, const char __user *filename, int flags, int mode); asmlinkage long sys_unshare(unsigned long unshare_flags); +asmlinkage long sys_splice(int fdin, int fdout, size_t len, + unsigned int flags); #endif -- cgit