linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 09/11] fs/pipe.c: export create_pipe_files() and replace

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Message-ID: <20171208130538.quwqaqvawbqmehpf@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Fri, 8 Dec 2017 15:05:38 +0200
From:   Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
To:     James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        "open list:FILESYSTEMS (VFS and infrastructure)" 
        <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 09/11] fs/pipe.c: export create_pipe_files() and
 replace_fd()

On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 07:37:38PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> I think I could replace pipes with anonymous inodes. Is that a better
> idea than pipes? I can work on that v8 if the export is a show stopper
> as it seems. We are using that to do some other stuff in tpm_vtpm_proxy.

I'll go with the anon inode solution. It should be fairly easy
to implement.

/Jarkko