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

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 17:18:49 +0800
Changli Gao <xiaosuo@xxxxxxxxx> 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.

And are being used quite happily with the pipe() call. So what is the
problem ?
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