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fill passed data into a pipe
</span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="re209.html"><span>generic_file_splice_read</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> —
splice data from file to a pipe
</span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="re210.html"><span>splice_from_pipe_feed</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> —
feed available data from a pipe to a file
</span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="re211.html"><span>splice_from_pipe_next</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> —
wait for some data to splice from
</span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="re212.html"><span>splice_from_pipe_begin</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> —
start splicing from pipe
</span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="re213.html"><span>splice_from_pipe_end</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> —
finish splicing from pipe
</span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="re214.html"><span>__splice_from_pipe</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> —
splice data from a pipe to given actor
</span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="re215.html"><span>splice_from_pipe</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> —
splice data from a pipe to a file
</span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="re216.html"><span>generic_file_splice_write</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> —
splice data from a pipe to a file
</span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="re217.html"><span>generic_splice_sendpage</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> —
splice data from a pipe to a socket
</span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="re218.html"><span>splice_direct_to_actor</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> —
splices data directly between two non-pipes
</span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="re219.html"><span>do_splice_direct</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> —
splices data directly between two files
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splice is a method for moving blocks of data around inside the
kernel, without continually transferring them between the kernel
and user space.
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