Re: [patch] pipe: add support for shrinking and growing pipes

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 19 May 2010, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> 
> One issue I see is that it's possible to grow pipes indefinitely.
> Should this be restricted to privileged users?

Yes. But perhaps only if it grows past the default (or perhaps "default*2" 
or similar). That way a normal user could shrink the pipe buffers, and 
then grow them again if he wants to.

Oh, and I think you need to also require that there be at least two 
buffers. Otherwise we can't guarantee POSIX behavior, I think.

		Linus
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