lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2012]   [Apr]   [30]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: autofs: make the autofsv5 packet file descriptor use a packetized pipe
> 
> The thing I *really* hate about the current autofs situation is how it
> really does everything you can possibly do wrong. Not at all the
> "let's just read as much as we can, and look at the return value to
> determine number of bytes/packets", but literally "I know a-priori how
> big the packet is, and I will read exactly that many bytes". That
> coupled with the psueod-fixed-size packets just made it a very very
> fragile thing.
>

Yes, and that was my fault, originally... back when there was one packet
size and long before compat was a concern.

-hpa



\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2012-04-30 22:21    [W:0.111 / U:0.980 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site