Do not block on I/O; see
splice(2)
for further details.
SPLICE_F_MORE
Currently has no effect for
vmsplice(),
but may be implemented in the future; see
splice(2).
SPLICE_F_GIFT
The user pages are a gift to the kernel.
The application may not modify this memory ever,
or page cache and on-disk data may differ.
Gifting pages to the kernel means that a subsequent
splice(2)
SPLICE_F_MOVE
can successfully move the pages;
if this flag is not specified, then a subsequent
splice(2)
SPLICE_F_MOVE
must copy the pages.
Data must also be properly page aligned, both in memory and length.
RETURN VALUE
Upon successful completion,
vmsplice()
returns the number of bytes transferred to the pipe.
On error,
vmsplice()
returns -1 and
errno
is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
EBADF
fd
either not valid, or doesn't refer to a pipe.
EINVAL
nr_segs
is 0 or greater than
IOV_MAX;
or memory not aligned if
SPLICE_F_GIFT
set.
ENOMEM
Out of memory.
VERSIONS
The
vmsplice()
system call first appeared in Linux 2.6.17.
CONFORMING TO
This system call is Linux-specific.
NOTES
vmsplice()
follows the other vectorized read/write type functions when it comes to
limitations on number of segments being passed in.
This limit is
IOV_MAX
as defined in
<limits.h>.
At the time of this writing, that limit is 1024.
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