splice: add SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK flag

It doesn't make the splice itself necessarily nonblocking (because the
actual file descriptors that are spliced from/to may block unless they
have the O_NONBLOCK flag set), but it makes the splice pipe operations
nonblocking.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Linus Torvalds
2006-04-02 12:46:35 -07:00
parent b45e516f70
commit 29e350944f
2 changed files with 24 additions and 4 deletions

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@@ -60,5 +60,8 @@ void free_pipe_info(struct inode* inode);
* add the splice flags here.
*/
#define SPLICE_F_MOVE (0x01) /* move pages instead of copying */
#define SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK (0x02) /* don't block on the pipe splicing (but */
/* we may still block on the fd we splice */
/* from/to, of course */
#endif