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

From: Changli Gao
Date: Sun Jul 05 2009 - 21:13:05 EST


On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Albert ARIBAUD<albert.aribaud@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Changli Gao a Ãcrit :
>
>> Yea, in many cases, max fd number must be enlarged. More fds means
>> more memory. Although memory is cheaper today, we have to do our best
>> to save money.
>
> Sorry for interrupting, but I don't see how pipe could return a single fd,
> considering there are two (partly) independent ends, each being read (resp.
> written) in their own time, and an fd has only one "current read/write
> position" IIUC.
>
> If the proposal is to have two independent positions (one for reads and one
> for writes) for a single fd, then I am not sure the gain in the number of
> fds used is worth the loss in the increased size of the fd structure.
>
> Am I missing something?
pipe doesn't support llseek.


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Changli Gao(xiaosuo@xxxxxxxxx)
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