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| author | Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> | 2006-03-30 15:15:30 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-03-30 12:28:18 -0800 |
| commit | 5274f052e7b3dbd81935772eb551dfd0325dfa9d (patch) | |
| tree | c79f813ec513660edb6f1e4a75cb366c6b84f53f /include/asm-x86_64/unistd.h | |
| parent | 5d4fe2c1ce83c3e967ccc1ba3d580c1a5603a866 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-5274f052e7b3dbd81935772eb551dfd0325dfa9d.tar.gz lwn-5274f052e7b3dbd81935772eb551dfd0325dfa9d.zip | |
[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 <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-x86_64/unistd.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/asm-x86_64/unistd.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-x86_64/unistd.h b/include/asm-x86_64/unistd.h index fcc516353087..f21ff2c1e960 100644 --- a/include/asm-x86_64/unistd.h +++ b/include/asm-x86_64/unistd.h @@ -609,8 +609,10 @@ __SYSCALL(__NR_unshare, sys_unshare) __SYSCALL(__NR_set_robust_list, sys_set_robust_list) #define __NR_get_robust_list 274 __SYSCALL(__NR_get_robust_list, sys_get_robust_list) +#define __NR_splice 275 +__SYSCALL(__NR_splice, sys_splice) -#define __NR_syscall_max __NR_get_robust_list +#define __NR_syscall_max __NR_splice #ifndef __NO_STUBS |