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

[H. Peter Anvin]

> 
> The thing I *really* hate about the current autofs situation is how it
> really does everything you can possibly do wrong. Not at all the
> "let's just read as much as we can, and look at the return value to
> determine number of bytes/packets", but literally "I know a-priori how
> big the packet is, and I will read exactly that many bytes". That
> coupled with the psueod-fixed-size packets just made it a very very
> fragile thing.
> 

Yes, and that was my fault, originally... back when there was one packet
size and long before compat was a concern.

	-hpa

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