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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	mjt@tls.msk.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	autofs@vger.kernel.org, raven@themaw.net, thomas@m3y3r.de,
	stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce a version6 of autofs interface, to fix design error.
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:43:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F9B050C.3000309@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFzGO+PHmjjVgxnYawbB-wFAqHtkh19vTv1AwQNpc9MsWg@mail.gmail.com>

On 04/27/2012 12:56 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> What it does is add a new "packetized" flag to pipes, which does two
> simple things:
>  - do not merge write data in pipe buffers when writing
>  - when reading, consider a pipe buffer to be "spent" when any of the
> data has been read
> 

Why not just use the already existing SOCK_SEQPACKET sockets?

	-hpa

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-04-27 20:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-26 13:34 [PATCH v2] Introduce a version6 of autofs interface, to fix design error Michael Tokarev
2012-04-26 13:44 ` Michael Tokarev
2012-04-27  0:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-27  9:45   ` Michael Tokarev
2012-04-27 15:47     ` Mark Lord
2012-04-27 20:37       ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-28 22:20         ` Mark Lord
2012-04-27 16:22     ` David Miller
2012-04-27 17:10       ` Michael Tokarev
2012-04-27 17:28         ` David Miller
2012-04-27 18:19     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-27 18:34       ` David Miller
2012-04-27 18:42         ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-27 18:55           ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-27 19:14             ` David Miller
2012-04-27 19:16               ` David Miller
2012-04-27 19:19                 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-27 19:24                   ` David Miller
2012-04-27 19:56                     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-27 20:13                       ` Stef Bon
2012-04-27 20:29                       ` David Miller
2012-04-27 22:40                         ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-27 20:43                       ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-04-27 22:42                         ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-27 22:56                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-27 23:07                             ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-28  0:03                               ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-28  0:17                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-27 22:42                       ` Alan Cox
2012-04-27 22:49                         ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-27 23:27                         ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-28 16:10                           ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-29  6:37                             ` Michael Tokarev
2012-04-29  7:19                               ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-29  7:45                                 ` Michael Tokarev
2012-04-29 18:29                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-29 19:09                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-29 19:53                                       ` Michael Tokarev
2012-04-29 20:53                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-30  8:41                                         ` Thomas Meyer
2012-04-28  1:56               ` Ian Kent
2012-04-27 19:08           ` David Miller
2012-04-27 20:45             ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-27 20:42       ` H. Peter Anvin

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