From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>,
Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>,
autofs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: autofs: make the autofsv5 packet file descriptor use a packetized pipe
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:45:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F9DE0C7.3030508@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFzDhkVzaUYQwKbkUqoRNb223+w0-k=pOxTZHja75JOMvQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 04/29/2012 05:43 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> (There's a "len" field in the v5 packet, but that's not the packet
> length, that's the length of the name component)
>
Yes, that dates back from autofs v2/3 where there was only one packet type.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-30 0:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2012-04-30 0:15 ` autofs: make the autofsv5 packet file descriptor use a packetized pipe H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-30 0:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-30 0:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-30 0:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-30 0:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-30 0:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-30 0:45 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-04-30 1:29 ` Ian Kent
2012-04-30 1:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-30 5:57 ` Ian Kent
2012-04-30 0:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-30 0:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-30 20:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-30 20:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-30 20:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-30 6:27 ` Michael Tokarev
2012-04-30 6:43 ` Michael Tokarev
2012-04-30 6:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-30 6:55 ` Ian Kent
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