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| author | Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> | 2006-03-30 17:15:30 +0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-03-31 00:28:18 +0400 |
| commit | 5274f052e7b3dbd81935772eb551dfd0325dfa9d (patch) | |
| tree | c79f813ec513660edb6f1e4a75cb366c6b84f53f /include/asm-ia64 | |
| parent | 5d4fe2c1ce83c3e967ccc1ba3d580c1a5603a866 (diff) | |
| download | linux-5274f052e7b3dbd81935772eb551dfd0325dfa9d.tar.xz | |
[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-ia64')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/asm-ia64/unistd.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-ia64/unistd.h b/include/asm-ia64/unistd.h index 019956c613e4..36070c1014d8 100644 --- a/include/asm-ia64/unistd.h +++ b/include/asm-ia64/unistd.h @@ -285,12 +285,13 @@ #define __NR_faccessat 1293 /* 1294, 1295 reserved for pselect/ppoll */ #define __NR_unshare 1296 +#define __NR_splice 1297 #ifdef __KERNEL__ #include <linux/config.h> -#define NR_syscalls 273 /* length of syscall table */ +#define NR_syscalls 274 /* length of syscall table */ #define __ARCH_WANT_SYS_RT_SIGACTION |