Re: FIFO files

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Cyrille Chepelov wrote:

>Le Tue, Jun 17, 2003, à 06:24:19PM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger a écrit:
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>>This facility has been present in linux for years. Just google for "sparse
>>files".
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>Yes sparse files would do. However, after a sizeable use of the facility,
>you'd end up with a giant hole at the beginning, whatever queued data, and
>EOF. 
>What I want to do is the ability to just remove the hole in front (just as
>when there is no point in having a hole at the end of the file, you just
>truncate that hole out), so that seek(SEEK_BEGIN,0) positions me at the
>beginning of useful data (or EOF if my queue is empty).
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>	-- Cyrille
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So in answer, yes, this is quite feasible and reasonable to do.  I will 
be likely to accept such a patch, though you should send a detailed 
design first to reiserfs-list before writing code.

-- 
Hans