Re: PROPOSAL: extend pipe() to support NULL argument.

[Amerigo Wang]

On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 05:18:49PM +0800, Changli Gao wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Amerigo Wang<xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 03:36:41PM +0800, Changli Gao wrote:
>>
>> Why? Why do you need this feature?
>>
>Are you familiar with splice() and tee()? They both use pipes as kernel buffers.

You are not answering the question, obviously.

And you snipped too much, how can you return that fd? Using the return value?
Ah! This will probably break the user-space program...
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