linux-kernel - Re: autofs: make the autofsv5 packet file descriptor use a packetized pipe

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Date:	Sun, 29 Apr 2012 23:48:28 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>, Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>,
	autofs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: autofs: make the autofsv5 packet file descriptor use a packetized
 pipe

On 04/29/2012 11:43 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 
> I think this is a false alarm.  I checked autofs v3 and v4
> userspace code (found on  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs )
> and they both read whole packet at once, not piece-wise.
> 

Yup, the original braindamage is all mine.

	-hpa

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