From b94a87a5b888b5aedcae176ae1b90d6a67bfcb59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2018 14:33:29 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] vmsplice.2: Minor tweaks to Andrei's patch Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man2/vmsplice.2 | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/vmsplice.2 b/man2/vmsplice.2 index 03ccdb476..d324e3421 100644 --- a/man2/vmsplice.2 +++ b/man2/vmsplice.2 @@ -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),