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

David Miller
2012-04-27T19:24:34Z

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:19:56 -0700

> Btw, I think I may have an alternate fix. Which is to simply add a
> "packetized" mode to pipes.

If you can pull that off, it would certainly work and be the best
solution.

BTW, this has happened before, we had this same problem passing data
over netlink sockets. And since it's packetized already we had a
slightly easier time dealing with it.