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

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1005201041320.23538@i5.linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 20 May 2010 10:42:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
cc:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [patch] pipe: add support for shrinking and growing pipes



On Thu, 20 May 2010, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 
> The main reason I didn't push it before is that I wasn't completely sure
> that we wanted to use fcntl() for this. But Linus doesn't seem to object
> on that side at least.

Well, I don't object as long as there is some real use-case. If it's a 
"feature just for the sake of the feature" kind of theoretical "shouldn't 
we be able to do this" thing, I don't think we should do it.

But it sounded like Miklos actually had a reason for the request. 

		Linus
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