Hey наб, > Cc: "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> Please use <alx@xxxxxxxxxx>; I'm deprecating my gmail account. On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 02:31:35AM +0100, наб wrote: > But this does mean that since 5.12 supports Did you mean "since 5.12, _it_ supports"? > (5.12 has ISREG|ISBLK, this actually matches 6.0 semantics): > any -> pipe via splice > seekable -> any > > Also, there are many seekable files which aren't regular, > and the offset is updated regardless. > This is obvious, but the wording is clumsy. > > Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > man2/sendfile.2 | 11 ++++++++++- > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/man2/sendfile.2 b/man2/sendfile.2 > index 24de71072..a385949c1 100644 > --- a/man2/sendfile.2 > +++ b/man2/sendfile.2 > @@ -91,12 +91,21 @@ .SH DESCRIPTION > .BR mmap (2)-like > operations > (i.e., it cannot be a socket). > +Except since Linux 5.12 > +.\" commit b964bf53e540262f2d12672b3cca10842c0172e7 > +and if > +.I out_fd > +is a pipe, in which case > +.BR sendfile () > +desugars to a > +.BR splice (2) > +and its restrictions apply. > .P > Before Linux 2.6.33, > .I out_fd > must refer to a socket. > Since Linux 2.6.33 it can be any file. > -If it is a regular file, then > +If it's seekable, then > .BR sendfile () > changes the file offset appropriately. > .SH RETURN VALUE > -- > 2.39.2 LGTM. Have a lovely day, Alex -- <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/> Looking for a remote C programming job at the moment.
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