Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271355AbTGWWKG (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:10:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271356AbTGWWKG (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:10:06 -0400 Received: from vladimir.pegasys.ws ([64.220.160.58]:12555 "EHLO vladimir.pegasys.ws") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271355AbTGWWJ2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:09:28 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:24:32 -0700 From: jw schultz To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel bug in socketpair() Message-ID: <20030723222432.GC16188@pegasys.ws> Mail-Followup-To: jw schultz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030723100043.18d5b025.davem@redhat.com> <200307231724.NAA90957@raptor.research.att.com> <20030723103135.3eac4cd2.davem@redhat.com> <200307231814.OAA74344@raptor.research.att.com> <20030723112307.5b8ae55c.davem@redhat.com> <200307231854.OAA90112@raptor.research.att.com> <20030723120457.206dc02d.davem@redhat.com> <200307231911.PAA35164@raptor.research.att.com> <20030723121436.10d53965.davem@redhat.com> <200307231929.PAA77754@raptor.research.att.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200307231929.PAA77754@raptor.research.att.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-Message-Flag: This message is may contain confidential information. Unauthorised disclosure will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1373 Lines: 34 On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 03:29:03PM -0400, Glenn Fowler wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 12:14:36 -0700 David S. Miller wrote: > > I missed the reason why you can't use pipes and bash > > is able to, what is it? > > we have some applications, ksh included, with semantics that require > stdin be read at most one line at a time; an inefficient implementation > of this does 1 byte read()s until newline is read; an efficient > implementation does a peek read (without advancing the read/seek offset), > determines how many chars to read up to and including the newline, > and then read()s that much > > linux has ioctl(I_PEEK) for stream devices and recv() for sockets, > and neither of these work on pipes; if there is a linux alternative > for pipes then we'd be glad to use it > > we switched from pipe() to socketpair() to take advantage of the linux > recv() peek read Perhaps you'd rather code a patch adding peek functionality for pipes. -- ________________________________________________________________ J.W. Schultz Pegasystems Technologies email address: jw@pegasys.ws Remember Cernan and Schmitt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/