[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 <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/include/asm-ia64/unistd.h b/include/asm-ia64/unistd.h
index 019956c..36070c1 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 <linux/config.h>
-#define NR_syscalls 273 /* length of syscall table */
+#define NR_syscalls 274 /* length of syscall table */
#define __ARCH_WANT_SYS_RT_SIGACTION