From: Jens Axboe Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:15:30 +0000 (+0200) Subject: [PATCH] Introduce sys_splice() system call X-Git-Tag: v2.6.17-rc1~150 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5274f052e7b3dbd81935772eb551dfd0325dfa9d;p=pandora-kernel.git [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 --- Reading git-diff-tree failed