1<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968"><title>splice_from_pipe</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Linux Filesystems API"><link rel="up" href="splice.html" title="Chapter&#160;7.&#160;splice API"><link rel="prev" href="API---splice-from-pipe.html" title="__splice_from_pipe"><link rel="next" href="API-iter-file-splice-write.html" title="iter_file_splice_write"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center"><span class="phrase">splice_from_pipe</span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="API---splice-from-pipe.html">Prev</a>&#160;</td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter&#160;7.&#160;splice API</th><td width="20%" align="right">&#160;<a accesskey="n" href="API-iter-file-splice-write.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="refentry"><a name="API-splice-from-pipe"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>splice_from_pipe &#8212; 
2     splice data from a pipe to a file
3 </p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table border="0" class="funcprototype-table" summary="Function synopsis" style="cellspacing: 0; cellpadding: 0;"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">ssize_t <b class="fsfunc">splice_from_pipe </b>(</code></td><td>struct pipe_inode_info * <var class="pdparam">pipe</var>, </td></tr><tr><td>&#160;</td><td>struct file * <var class="pdparam">out</var>, </td></tr><tr><td>&#160;</td><td>loff_t * <var class="pdparam">ppos</var>, </td></tr><tr><td>&#160;</td><td>size_t <var class="pdparam">len</var>, </td></tr><tr><td>&#160;</td><td>unsigned int <var class="pdparam">flags</var>, </td></tr><tr><td>&#160;</td><td>splice_actor * <var class="pdparam">actor</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer">&#160;</div></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp1104056404"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>pipe</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
4     pipe to splice from
5    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>out</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
6     file to splice to
7    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>ppos</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
8     position in <em class="parameter"><code>out</code></em>
9    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>len</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
10     how many bytes to splice
11    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>flags</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
12     splice modifier flags
13    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>actor</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
14     handler that splices the data
15    </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp1104063428"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>
16   See __splice_from_pipe. This function locks the pipe inode,
17   otherwise it's identical to <code class="function">__splice_from_pipe</code>.
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