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diff --git a/share/man/man9/sosplice.9 b/share/man/man9/sosplice.9 index 7f865f479fd..c916b2bdaa5 100644 --- a/share/man/man9/sosplice.9 +++ b/share/man/man9/sosplice.9 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: sosplice.9,v 1.2 2011/03/12 18:31:41 bluhm Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: sosplice.9,v 1.3 2011/07/04 00:34:43 mikeb Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2011 Alexander Bluhm <bluhm@openbsd.org> .\" @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: March 12 2011 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: July 4 2011 $ .Dt SOSPLICE 9 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ .Nd splice two sockets for zero-copy data transfer .Sh SYNOPSIS .Ft int -.Fn sosplice "struct socket *so" "int fd" "off_t max" +.Fn sosplice "struct socket *so" "int fd" "off_t max" "struct timeval *tv" .Ft int .Fn somove "struct socket *so" "int wait" .Sh DESCRIPTION @@ -41,6 +41,12 @@ is negative, an existing splicing gets dissolved. If .Fa max is positive, at most that many bytes will get transferred. +If +.Fa tv +is not NULL, a +.Xr timeout 9 +is scheduled to dissolve splicing in the case when no data can be +transferred for the specified period of time. Socket splicing can be invoked from user-land via the .Xr setsockopt 2 system-call at the @@ -138,6 +144,11 @@ If that fails and the drain socket cannot send anymore, an .Er EPIPE error is set on the source socket. .Pp +If the idle timeout was specified and no data was transferred +for that period of time, splicing gets dissolved and an +.Er ETIMEDOUT +error is set on the source socket. +.Pp Finally the socket splicing gets dissolved if the source socket cannot receive anymore and its receive buffer is empty; or if the drain socket cannot send anymore; or if the maximum has been reached; @@ -200,7 +211,8 @@ locked. .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr setsockopt 2 , -.Xr options 4 +.Xr options 4 , +.Xr timeout 9 .Sh HISTORY Socket splicing first appeared in .Ox 4.9 . |