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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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.
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:19:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFzPbAprx-iT0TYh24uS7+JnL92mbTg_js6Cd_O0q+Dvmw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120427.151651.2274764174217164454.davem@davemloft.net>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-27 19:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-26 13:34 [PATCH v2] Introduce a version6 of autofs interface, to fix design error Michael Tokarev
2012-04-26 13:44 ` Michael Tokarev
2012-04-27  0:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-27  9:45   ` Michael Tokarev
2012-04-27 15:47     ` Mark Lord
2012-04-27 20:37       ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-28 22:20         ` Mark Lord
2012-04-27 16:22     ` David Miller
2012-04-27 17:10       ` Michael Tokarev
2012-04-27 17:28         ` David Miller
2012-04-27 18:19     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-27 18:34       ` David Miller
2012-04-27 18:42         ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-27 18:55           ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-27 19:14             ` David Miller
2012-04-27 19:16               ` David Miller
2012-04-27 19:19                 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2012-04-27 19:24                   ` David Miller
2012-04-27 19:56                     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-27 20:13                       ` Stef Bon
2012-04-27 20:29                       ` David Miller
2012-04-27 22:40                         ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-27 20:43                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-27 22:42                         ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-27 22:56                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-27 23:07                             ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-28  0:03                               ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-28  0:17                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-27 22:42                       ` Alan Cox
2012-04-27 22:49                         ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-27 23:27                         ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-28 16:10                           ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-29  6:37                             ` Michael Tokarev
2012-04-29  7:19                               ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-29  7:45                                 ` Michael Tokarev
2012-04-29 18:29                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-29 19:09                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-29 19:53                                       ` Michael Tokarev
2012-04-29 20:53                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-30  8:41                                         ` Thomas Meyer
2012-04-28  1:56               ` Ian Kent
2012-04-27 19:08           ` David Miller
2012-04-27 20:45             ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-27 20:42       ` H. Peter Anvin

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