From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761307Ab2D0TYe (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:24:34 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:45011 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760458Ab2D0TYd (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:24:33 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:24:04 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20120427.152404.2292425516870981391.davem@davemloft.net> To: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: mjt@tls.msk.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, autofs@vger.kernel.org, raven@themaw.net, thomas@m3y3r.de, stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce a version6 of autofs interface, to fix design error. From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <20120427.151433.1007849975903946491.davem@davemloft.net> <20120427.151651.2274764174217164454.davem@davemloft.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.5 on Emacs 24.0.95 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (shards.monkeyblade.net [198.137.202.13]); Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:24:05 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Linus Torvalds 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.