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diff --git a/man2/splice.2 b/man2/splice.2
index 7cc293003764ffb3f140c4177096bc9a2992ec61..f5f1be72bcc0d16355f177ceb9797ee315cb8912 100644 (file)
--- a/man2/splice.2
+++ b/man2/splice.2
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work.
 .\" %%%LICENSE_END
 .\"
-.TH SPLICE 2 2017-09-15 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH SPLICE 2 2019-05-09 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 splice \- splice data to/from a pipe
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ The
 .I flags
 argument is a bit mask that is composed by ORing together
 zero or more of the following values:
-.TP 1.9i
+.TP
 .B SPLICE_F_MOVE
 Attempt to move pages instead of copying.
 This is only a hint to the kernel:
@@ -155,7 +155,9 @@ is set to indicate the error.
 .B EAGAIN
 .B SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK
 was specified in
-.IR flags ,
+.IR flags
+or one of the file descriptors had been marked as nonblocking
+.RB ( O_NONBLOCK ) ,
 and the operation would block.
 .TP
 .B EBADF
@@ -249,6 +251,16 @@ only pointers are copied, not the pages of the buffer.
 .\" the data and choose to forward it to two or more different
 .\" users - for things like logging etc.).
 .\"
+.PP
+In Linux 2.6.30 and earlier,
+exactly one of
+.I fd_in
+and
+.I fd_out
+was required to be a pipe.
+Since Linux 2.6.31,
+.\" commit 7c77f0b3f9208c339a4b40737bb2cb0f0319bb8d
+both arguments may refer to pipes.
 .SH EXAMPLE
 See
 .BR tee (2).