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

H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-27T20:44:31Z

On 04/27/2012 12:56 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> What it does is add a new "packetized" flag to pipes, which does two
> simple things:
> - do not merge write data in pipe buffers when writing
> - when reading, consider a pipe buffer to be "spent" when any of the
> data has been read
>

Why not just use the already existing SOCK_SEQPACKET sockets?

-hpa