karthick18
/ splice.c
Created
September 22, 2011 06:31
An example copy of a file to output file using the splice syscall that avoids copying to/from user space buffers to kernel space by employing pipe buffers allocated in kernel space for fast data transfers between 2 files
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| /* | |
| * An example using splice syscall which avoids copying to/from user space buffers to kernel space | |
| * and uses the pipe buffers allocated in kernel space as an intermediate to directly xfer from one file to another | |
| * | |
| * gcc -o splice splice.c -g | |
| */ | |
| #define _GNU_SOURCE | |
| #include <stdio.h> | |
| #include <string.h> |