kfifo_out_peek(9)

kfifo_out_peek9

Gets some data from the fifo

Usage

kfifo_out_peek(fifo, buf, n);

Arguments

fifo

address of the fifo to be used

buf

pointer to the storage buffer

n

max. number of elements to get

Overview

This macro get the data from the fifo and return the numbers of elements copied. The data is not removed from the fifo.

Note that with only one concurrent reader and one concurrent writer, you don't need extra locking to use these macro.

Releases

3 releases since Debian 7 (Wheezy); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 7
  2. 8
  3. 9

From linux-manual-4.9 4.9.228-1 in Debian 9 (Stretch). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.