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

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFy72rPMq3M2_PU0ue45Fb38_Effrfhu2uOpdVXt9H1XOg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:25:35 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>,
	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 Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 5:15 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
>
> I just looked at am-utils; am-utils *does* use autofs v5, and *will*
> loop back and read more data on a short read.

Can you point to the sources?

If it's "short read" as in "I didn't get as much as I expected", that's fine.

If it is "short read" as in "I don't even try to read 300 bytes, I
read it in 8-byte chunks", we're screwed.

                     Linus
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