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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce a version6 of autofs interface, to fix
 design error.
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 23:42:15 +0100
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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

> Comments? The patch looks fairly simple. The "packetized pipe" might
> even be useful for other users and maybe we might want to expose it as
> an actual pipe fcntl, but right now the only thing that sets that flag
> is autofs.

The obvious way to set the flag would seem to me to also btake O_DIRECT
on the pipe as meaning this ?

Alan