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Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 17:13:09 +0800
From: Amerigo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: extend pipe() to support NULL argument.
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On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 03:36:41PM +0800, Changli Gao wrote:
>Linux also uses pipes as references of kernel buffers. In that case,
>only one RW file descriptor will be enough, instead of inventing a new
>system call, I think extending the existing pipe() is a better idea.
>If pipe is passed with a NULL pointer, one RW file descriptor is
>returned. I have checkd the other architectures except of x86, it
>seems that not all of the platforms implement this system call with
>the prototype: int pipe(int fd[2]); and changing glibc is needed. Is
>it possible to extend pipe() in this way?
>

Why? Why do you need this feature?
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