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

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 04/29/2012 05:33 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> The problem is only if it starts out by reading just the header of the
> packet, and then reads the rest of the packet as a second read. *THAT*
> won't work with the packetized pipe approach, because reading the
> header of the packet will then discard the rest of it, and the second
> read would try to read the *next* packet (which under many normal
> loads won't even exist, of course).
> 

Which is funny/sad, because that's actually the intended way the
interface is meant to work.

	-hpa


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