/* splice.h   by Michael Thorpe   2004-11-04 */

#ifndef _SPLICE_H
#define _SPLICE_H

#include <sys/types.h>

/**********************************************************************/
/* splice takes a file's fd and a position within that file and reads */
/* oldlen bytes from the file at that position into old, and replaces */
/* them with the newlen bytes found in new. oldlen or newlen need not */
/* be the same and can be 0. old can be 0 if you don't want old data. */
/*    Returns:                                                        */
/*  0 for success                                                     */
/* -1 for corrupting error                                            */
/*  1 for noncorrupting error                                         */
/**********************************************************************/

int splice(int f,off_t pos,void *old,size_t oldlen,void *new,size_t newlen);

#endif