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/asm-ia64/unistd.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/asm-ia64') 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 -#define NR_syscalls 273 /* length of syscall table */ +#define NR_syscalls 274 /* length of syscall table */ #define __ARCH_WANT_SYS_RT_SIGACTION -- cgit v1.2.3-58-ga151