__splice_from_pipe(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

__splice_from_pipe — splice data from a pipe to given actor. This is the Kernel API Manual page for __splice_from_pipe(9), and bestie, it’s giving very specific little helper energy 💅✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ssize_t __splice_from_pipe (struct pipe_inode_info *pipe , struct splice_desc *sd , splice_actor *actor );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• pipe — pipe to splice from. Like, the actual pipe we’re pulling from, no cap.
• sd — information to actor. The lil info package handed over to the actor.
• actor — handler that splices the data. This is the main character doing the splice work.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so this function does little more than loop over the pipe and call actor to do the actual moving of a single struct pipe_buffer to the desired destination. That’s it — she’s the coordinator, not the mover, and honestly? iconic 🫶

See pipe_to_file, pipe_to_sendmsg, or pipe_to_user if you wanna meet the actual movers. 💖

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

Kernel file ./fs/splice.c is also on the list, and the rest of the SEE ALSO lineup is:

• splice_to_pipe(9)
• copy_splice_read(9)
• splice_from_pipe_feed(9)
• splice_from_pipe_next(9)
• splice_from_pipe_begin(9)
• splice_from_pipe_end(9)
• splice_from_pipe(9)
• iter_file_splice_write(9)
• splice_to_socket(9)
• vfs_splice_read(9)
• splice_direct_to_actor(9)
• do_splice_direct(9)
• splice_file_range(9)

Stay spliced, bestie 💖 This was __splice_from_pipe(9) from source ./fs, dated October 2026. Periodt. 🎀✨