.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man .\" from a DocBook document. This tool can be found at: .\" .\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, .\" etc. to Steve Cheng . .TH "PSKB_COPY" "9" "09 October 2005" "" "" .SH NAME pskb_copy \- create copy of an sk_buff with private head. .SH SYNOPSIS "SYNOPSIS" .sp \fB .sp struct sk_buff * pskb_copy (struct sk_buff * \fIskb\fB, unsigned int __nocast \fIgfp_mask\fB); \fR .SH "ARGUMENTS" .TP \fB\fIskb\fB\fR buffer to copy .TP \fB\fIgfp_mask\fB\fR allocation priority .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP Make a copy of both an &sk_buff and part of its data, located in header. Fragmented data remain shared. This is used when the caller wishes to modify only header of &sk_buff and needs private copy of the header to alter. Returns NULL on failure or the pointer to the buffer on success. The returned buffer has a reference count of 1.