Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758402AbZGHElW (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jul 2009 00:41:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752416AbZGHElO (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jul 2009 00:41:14 -0400 Received: from mail-gx0-f226.google.com ([209.85.217.226]:48505 "EHLO mail-gx0-f226.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751817AbZGHElN convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jul 2009 00:41:13 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Wk8lMV4Ae96hqIB/A5Ye6Lnbv4NFIyiPXHFbIYvnPjJTjVKi8i/7NeQRo15OyTdZ4u HegdNVq+ZOXSJe4BqbTGvxJGvtI0WXaclrBTSeB0iuNDpMYrfA8f16Aj4E6mO1TGLaNR 3Jn6D8fz4paghFXSHC3/I6fzXXO8oOC43Wy8U= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4A53B7DB.5050105@acm.org> References: <20090703015554.GB5880@cr0.nay.redhat.com> <412e6f7f0907030259m5556ee2fobbb58d377bce4d17@mail.gmail.com> <4A4DDD54.9030206@free.fr> <200907070643.56394.vda.linux@googlemail.com> <412e6f7f0907070045o6a17fb10x557108ffde0da11@mail.gmail.com> <4A53B202.9080505@davidnewall.com> <4A53B7DB.5050105@acm.org> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 12:41:11 +0800 Message-ID: <412e6f7f0907072141x6de32dddj139c7bc1435d3bf6@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: extend pipe() to support NULL argument. From: Changli Gao To: Zan Lynx Cc: David Newall , Denys Vlasenko , Albert ARIBAUD , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Amerigo Wang , Linus Torvalds Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 580 Lines: 17 On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:02 AM, Zan Lynx wrote: > > But perhaps mkfifo(NULL) should be the syscall chosen to extend since its > parameters are much like open() already, and it seems to work in the above > sequence to create a one-FD FIFO already. > It sounds a good idea. -- Regards， Changli Gao(xiaosuo@gmail.com) -- 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/