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Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2017 15:05:38 +0200
From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 09/11] fs/pipe.c: export create_pipe_files() and
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On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 07:37:38PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> I think I could replace pipes with anonymous inodes. Is that a better
> idea than pipes? I can work on that v8 if the export is a show stopper
> as it seems. We are using that to do some other stuff in tpm_vtpm_proxy.

I'll go with the anon inode solution. It should be fairly easy
to implement.

/Jarkko