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vmsplice.2: Minor tweaks to Andrei's patch 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2018-08-07 14:33:29 +02:00
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@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ vmsplice \- splice user pages to/from a pipe
.\" after a successful write), but that is often easy to do.
If
.I fd
is opened for writting, the
is opened for writing, the
.BR vmsplice ()
system call maps
.I nr_segs
@ -180,9 +180,10 @@ this limit is 1024.
.PP
.\" commit 6a14b90bb6bc7cd83e2a444bf457a2ea645cbfe7
.BR vmsplice ()
only really supports true splicing from user memory to a pipe. In another
direction, it actually just copies the data to userspace. But this makes
the interface nice and symmetric and enables people to build on splice,
really supports true splicing only from user memory to a pipe.
In the opposite direction, it actually just copies the data to userspace.
But this makes the interface nice and symmetric and enables people to build on
.BR vmsplice ()
with room for future improvement in performance.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR splice (2),