Re: [patch] pipe: add support for shrinking and growing pipes

From: Michael Kerrisk
Date: Mon May 24 2010 - 13:53:24 EST


On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, May 24 2010, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
>> > Right, that looks like a thinko.
>> >
>> > I'll submit a patch changing it to bytes and the agreed API and fix this
>> > -Eerror. Thanks for your comments and suggestions!
>>
>> Thanks. And of course you are welcome. (Please CC linux-api@vger on
>> this patche (and all patches that change the API/ABI.)
>
> The first change is this:
>
> http://git.kernel.dk/?p=linux-2.6-block.git;a=commit;h=0191f8697bbdfefcd36e7b8dc3eeddfe82893e4b
>
> and the one dealing with the pages vs bytes API is this:
>
> http://git.kernel.dk/?p=linux-2.6-block.git;a=commit;h=b9598db3401282bb27b4aef77e3eee12015f7f29
>
> Not tested yet, will do so before sending in of course.

Eyeballing it quickly, these changes look right.

Do you have some test programs you can make available?

Thanks,

Michael




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