Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce a version6 of autofs interface, to fix design error.

David Miller
2012-04-27T20:29:59Z

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:56:20 -0700

> - when reading, consider a pipe buffer to be "spent" when any of the
> data has been read

So basically any sized read empties the entire pipe, right?

As long as we never generate multiple messages at the same
time, I guess this would work.

Otherwise we can't use this approach without some adjustments.