Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:14:15 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: autofs: make the autofsv5 packet file descriptor use a packetized pipe |
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> > 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
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