Re: really generic, type save and type definable.

[Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>]

Am Freitag, den 28.05.2010, 09:43 +0200 schrieb Henrik Rydberg:
> stefani@seibold.net wrote:
> [...]
> > The main goal was to provide an API which is very intuitive, save and easy
> > to use. So linux will get now a powerful fifo API which provides all what 
> > a developer needs. This will save in the future a lot of kernel space, since
> > there is no need to write an own implementation. Most of the device driver 
> > developers need a fifo, and also deep kernel development will gain benefit 
> > from this API.
> 
> The meaning of the term "multiple readers" referred to in the header is somewhat
> ambiguous. It could in principle refer to concurrent reading of the same
> position, or concurrent reading from different positions. Imaginably, those
> cases also have different locking behavior.
> 
> What happens if two fifos are initialized with the same memory buffer?
> 

That would be a big nonsense! Tell me a real use case for such kind of
request...

> What about one-to-many and many-to-one cases? The input system and the logging
> facilities could serve as examples where such buffers would be useful.
> 

There is no ne-to-many and many-to-one cases since the API will handle
this. You can not read more data then fit in the fifo, also u can not
write more data the fifo can handle.

Stefani