On Sat, 8 May 1999, matthew green wrote:

:    splice() takes two unrelated descriptors (say, d1 and d2) and connects them...
:    what would otherwise be read(d1)able from the first, is instead move to d2 as if
:    somebody would read(d1, buffer) and write(d2, buffer) in a loop.

: right.  except not as a 'pipe' -- data flows both directions.

So it's the opposite of socketpair() instead of pipe().  :)

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