linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce a version6 of autofs interface, to fix design error.

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Message-Id: <20120427.152404.2292425516870981391.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:24:04 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	mjt@....msk.ru, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	autofs@...r.kernel.org, raven@...maw.net, thomas@...3r.de,
	stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce a version6 of autofs interface, to fix
 design error.

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:19:56 -0700

> Btw, I think I may have an alternate fix. Which is to simply add a
> "packetized" mode to pipes.

If you can pull that off, it would certainly work and be the best
solution.

BTW, this has happened before, we had this same problem passing data
over netlink sockets.  And since it's packetized already we had a
slightly easier time dealing with it.
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