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 --- fs/ext3/file.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'fs/ext3') diff --git a/fs/ext3/file.c b/fs/ext3/file.c index 783a796220bb..1efefb630ea9 100644 --- a/fs/ext3/file.c +++ b/fs/ext3/file.c @@ -119,6 +119,8 @@ const struct file_operations ext3_file_operations = { .release = ext3_release_file, .fsync = ext3_sync_file, .sendfile = generic_file_sendfile, + .splice_read = generic_file_splice_read, + .splice_write = generic_file_splice_write, }; struct inode_operations ext3_file_inode_operations = { -- cgit v1.2.3