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

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Message-Id: <20120427.162925.2185774349490743693.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:29:25 -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 12:56:20 -0700

>  - when reading, consider a pipe buffer to be "spent" when any of the
> data has been read

So basically any sized read empties the entire pipe, right?

As long as we never generate multiple messages at the same
time, I guess this would work.

Otherwise we can't use this approach without some adjustments.
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