GENERIC_SPLICE_SENDP(9)                     splice API                    GENERIC_SPLICE_SENDP(9)



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
       pipe
           pipe to splice from

       out
           socket to write to

       ppos
           position in out

       len
           number of bytes to splice

       flags
           splice modifier flags

DESCRIPTION
       Will send len bytes from the pipe to a network socket. No data copying is involved.

COPYRIGHT
Kernel Hackers Manual 4.8.                 January 2017                   GENERIC_SPLICE_SENDP(9)