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On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 12:08:10PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> it could. It still uses multiple allocations, doing a _separate_
> allocation for the small "pipe_inode_info" instead of doing the embedding 
> trick.

I believe that is because of named pipes. These are sharing the inode
with the filesystem in which the named pipe is stored.

Jan
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