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

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 5:15 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> 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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