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From: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.aribaud@free.fr>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>,
	Amerigo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: extend pipe() to support NULL argument.
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:28:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A4DDD54.9030206@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <412e6f7f0907030259m5556ee2fobbb58d377bce4d17@mail.gmail.com>

Changli Gao a écrit :

> Yea, in many cases, max fd number must be enlarged. More fds means
> more memory. Although memory is cheaper today, we have to do our best
> to save money.

Sorry for interrupting, but I don't see how pipe could return a single fd, 
considering there are two (partly) independent ends, each being read (resp. 
written) in their own time, and an fd has only one "current read/write 
position" IIUC.

If the proposal is to have two independent positions (one for reads and one 
for writes) for a single fd, then I am not sure the gain in the number of 
fds used is worth the loss in the increased size of the fd structure.

Am I missing something?

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-07-03 10:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-02  7:36 PROPOSAL: extend pipe() to support NULL argument Changli Gao
2009-07-02  9:13 ` Amerigo Wang
2009-07-02  9:18   ` Changli Gao
2009-07-02  9:46     ` Amerigo Wang
2009-07-02 10:04       ` Changli Gao
2009-07-02 10:21         ` Amerigo Wang
2009-07-03  0:43           ` Changli Gao
2009-07-03  1:55             ` Amerigo Wang
2009-07-03  2:10               ` Changli Gao
2009-07-03  3:00                 ` Amerigo Wang
2009-07-03  4:08                   ` Changli Gao
2009-07-03  5:19                     ` Amerigo Wang
2009-07-03  5:42                       ` Changli Gao
2009-07-03  7:15                         ` Amerigo Wang
2009-07-03  7:40                           ` Changli Gao
2009-07-03  8:16                             ` Amerigo Wang
2009-07-03  8:27                               ` Changli Gao
2009-07-03  9:42                                 ` Amerigo Wang
2009-07-03  9:59                                   ` Changli Gao
2009-07-03 10:23                                     ` Amerigo Wang
2009-07-03 10:28                                     ` Albert ARIBAUD [this message]
2009-07-06  1:12                                       ` Changli Gao
2009-07-06  6:15                                         ` Albert ARIBAUD
2009-07-06  6:23                                           ` Changli Gao
2009-07-06  6:30                                             ` Albert ARIBAUD
2009-07-07  4:43                                       ` Denys Vlasenko
2009-07-07  7:45                                         ` Changli Gao
2009-07-07 20:37                                           ` David Newall
2009-07-07 21:02                                             ` Zan Lynx
2009-07-08  4:41                                               ` Changli Gao
2009-07-08  4:43                                                 ` David Newall
2009-07-02 10:42     ` Alan Cox
2009-07-03  0:45       ` Changli Gao

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