Re: Make pipe data structure be a circular list of pages, rather than

[Hugh Dickins]

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Hmm.. Are there really any other guarantees than the atomicity guarantee 
> for a PIPE_BUF transfer? I don't see any in SuS..
> 
> That said, existing practice obviously always trumps paper standards, and 
> yes, coalescing is possible.

Would a kernel build with "make -j18" count as existing practice?
Immediately hangs for me...

Hugh

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