From: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
To: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Cc: Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org>,
Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>,
Albert ARIBAUD <albert.aribaud@free.fr>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Amerigo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: extend pipe() to support NULL argument.
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:13:37 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A5423F9.3010102@davidnewall.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <412e6f7f0907072141x6de32dddj139c7bc1435d3bf6@mail.gmail.com>
Changli Gao wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:02 AM, Zan Lynx<zlynx@acm.org> wrote:
>
>> But perhaps mkfifo(NULL) should be the syscall chosen to extend since its
>> parameters are much like open() already, and it seems to work in the above
>> sequence to create a one-FD FIFO already.
>>
>>
> It sounds a good idea.
>
I disagree. I disbelieve that the cost of two fds per pipe is too high.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-08 4:43 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
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 [this message]
2009-07-02 10:42 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-03 0:45 ` Changli Gao
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