Re: autofs: make the autofsv5 packet file descriptor use a packetizedpipe

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 04/29/2012 05:25 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 5:15 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I just looked at am-utils; am-utils *does* use autofs v5, and *will*
>> loop back and read more data on a short read.
> 
> Can you point to the sources?
> 
> If it's "short read" as in "I didn't get as much as I expected", that's fine.
> 
> If it is "short read" as in "I don't even try to read 300 bytes, I
> read it in 8-byte chunks", we're screwed.
> 

git://git.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/am-utils-6.2.git
conf/autofs/autofs_linux.c

static ssize_t
autofs_get_pkt(int fd, void *buf, size_t bytes)
{
  ssize_t i;

  do {
    i = read(fd, buf, bytes);

    if (i <= 0)
      break;

    buf = (char *)buf + i;
    bytes -= i;
  } while (bytes);

  return bytes;
}

...

#if AUTOFS_MAX_PROTO_VERSION >= 5
    if (fh->version < 5) {
      len = sizeof(p.pkt);
    } else {
      len = sizeof(p.pkt5);
    }
#else
    len = sizeof(p.pkt);
#endif /* AUTOFS_MAX_PROTO_VERSION >= 5 */

    if (autofs_get_pkt(fh->fd, &p, len))
      continue;
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