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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:56:20 -0700

>  - when reading, consider a pipe buffer to be "spent" when any of the
> data has been read

So basically any sized read empties the entire pipe, right?

As long as we never generate multiple messages at the same
time, I guess this would work.

Otherwise we can't use this approach without some adjustments.