splice: add SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK flag
It doesn't make the splice itself necessarily nonblocking (because the
actual file descriptors that are spliced from/to may block unless they
have the O_NONBLOCK flag set), but it makes the splice pipe operations
nonblocking.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h b/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h
index 75c7f55..d218fc7 100644
--- a/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h
+++ b/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h
@@ -60,5 +60,8 @@
* add the splice flags here.
*/
#define SPLICE_F_MOVE (0x01) /* move pages instead of copying */
+#define SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK (0x02) /* don't block on the pipe splicing (but */
+ /* we may still block on the fd we splice */
+ /* from/to, of course */
#endif