Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:35:19 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: autofs: make the autofsv5 packet file descriptor use a packetized pipe |
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On 04/29/2012 05:33 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > The problem is only if it starts out by reading just the header of the > packet, and then reads the rest of the packet as a second read. *THAT* > won't work with the packetized pipe approach, because reading the > header of the packet will then discard the rest of it, and the second > read would try to read the *next* packet (which under many normal > loads won't even exist, of course). >
Which is funny/sad, because that's actually the intended way the interface is meant to work.
-hpa
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