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Old 10-25-2007, 10:39 AM   #1
vadiml
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Splice syscall does not work


Hello,
I'm trying to do a splice syscall from
tcp socket to a write side of a pipe
and getting BAD FILE DESCRIPTOR error...

Is it expected behaviour?
 
Old 10-25-2007, 12:45 PM   #2
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Can you show what code is causing this error? Please post code in [code] tags to preserve formatting ans aid readability.

Last edited by matthewg42; 12-15-2007 at 06:19 PM.
 
Old 10-26-2007, 05:21 AM   #3
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Ok, here is the code it is run with:
./tsplice 127.0.0.1:9000
Btw, where one can find the full doc for splice syscall?

Thanks

Code:
// tsplice.c - test splice syscall 
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

#include <poll.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>



int 
sa_pton(int af, const char *cp, struct sockaddr *sa)
{
  sa->sa_family = af;
  return inet_pton(af, cp, &((struct sockaddr_in *) sa)->sin_addr);

}

void 
sa_set_port(struct sockaddr *sa, int port)
{
  ((struct sockaddr_in *) sa)->sin_port = htons(port);
}


int 
sa_ptonp(int af, const char *cp, struct sockaddr *sa)
{
  char *ports;
  int r;
  char *cp2 = alloca(strlen(cp) + 1);

  strcpy(cp2, cp);
  ports = strrchr(cp2, ':');
  if (ports)
    *ports = 0;

  sa->sa_family = af;
  r =  inet_pton(af, cp2, &((struct sockaddr_in *) sa)->sin_addr);
  if (r > 0)
    sa_set_port(sa, atoi(ports+1));

  return r;

}


void error(const char *m)
{
  perror(m);
  exit(1);
}

char data[] = "012345678";

#define DATASIZE (sizeof(data))

char  rbuf[256];

main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  struct sockaddr sa;
  struct sockaddr lsa;
  int s1, s2, s3;
  int pipes[2];
  int r1, r2, r3;
  loff_t o1 = 0, o2 = 0;
  int alen = sizeof(lsa);

  sa_ptonp(AF_INET, argv[1], &sa);

  s1 = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
  if (s1 < 0)
    error("socket");

  r1 = bind(s1, &sa, sizeof(sa));
  if (r1 < 0)
    error("bind");

  r1 = listen(s1, 1);
  if (r1 < 0)
    error("listen");


  s2 = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
  if (s2 < 0)
    error("second socket");

  r1 = connect(s2, &sa, sizeof(sa));
  if (r1 < 0)
    error("connect");

  s3 = accept(s1, &lsa, &alen);
  if (s3 < 0)
    error("connect");

  pipe(pipes);
  
  r1 = write(s2, data, DATASIZE);
  r2 = splice(s3, &o1, pipes[1], &o2, DATASIZE, 0);
  if (r2 < 0)
    {
      error("splice syscall");
    }

  printf("r1=%d, r2=%d\n", r1, r2);


  r3 = read(pipes[0], rbuf, DATASIZE);


  printf("r1=%d, r2=%d, r3=%d, data=%s\n", r1, r2, r3, rbuf);
  

}
 
Old 10-13-2015, 12:23 AM   #4
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Quote:
Originally Posted by vadiml View Post
Ok, here is the code it is run with:
./tsplice 127.0.0.1:9000
Btw, where one can find the full doc for splice syscall?
Just check splice(2).

If you get <0 from a ssize_t syscall, it should be informative to check errno... hmm you do:
When you get a bad file descriptor: Output the fd number. Check the pipe call.

The
Code:
connect
without a listening
Code:
accept
should block your program.

Last edited by ikrabbe; 10-13-2015 at 12:30 AM. Reason: code review
 
Old 10-15-2015, 04:37 AM   #5
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Problem with splice

now i'm getting:

splice syscall: Illegal seek


Any ideas about the reason?
 
Old 10-15-2015, 05:24 AM   #6
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This syscall might not work on pipe/socket? Anyways, it is a linux-only feature, so you shouldn't use it at all. Use sendfile.

Edit: whenever you change something, always quote the modified code, for those who aren't clairvoyants.

Last edited by NevemTeve; 10-15-2015 at 05:27 AM.
 
Old 10-15-2015, 05:58 AM   #7
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don't seek in pipes!

@vadiml as NevemTeve told you, seek does not work anywhere.
splice is meant to be used for pipes and you cannot seek in pipes.

Assume this example:

echo "Hello, world\!" | some-seeking-program

now you can try to seek the 8th byte of stdin, which should fail with illegal seek too as you cannot seek in pipes.
 
Old 10-15-2015, 07:43 AM   #8
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I've found the problem:

Code:
r2 = splice(s3, &o1, pipes[1], &o2, DATASIZE, 0);
should be modified as follows;

Code:
r2 = splice(s3, 0, pipes[1], 0, DATASIZE, 0);
 
  


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