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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce a version6 of autofs interface, to fix design
 error.
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:43:56 -0700
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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

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