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

Linus Torvalds
2012-04-27T19:20:20Z

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:16 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
>
> BTW, I want to clarify that my position is that userland might have
> been the best place to handle this rather than the kernel.

It definitely is not.

You are ignoring the fact that the user-land workaround resulted in an
independent bug in *another* user-land project.

Your whole argument was apparently that "that point in user-land is
the only place that knows the details". But that argument is bogus
crap - and we can *see* that it is bogus crap by the fact that there
was *another* user-land place that had this problem, but didn't
realize it.

That's why fixing it in user land was always wrong. There isn't just a
single user of this interface!

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

Linus