From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754599Ab0ETRpw (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 May 2010 13:45:52 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:35859 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751084Ab0ETRpv (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 May 2010 13:45:51 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 10:42:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Jens Axboe cc: Miklos Szeredi , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [patch] pipe: add support for shrinking and growing pipes In-Reply-To: <20100520083732.GI25951@kernel.dk> Message-ID: References: <20100519180554.GY25951@kernel.dk> <20100519190510.GZ25951@kernel.dk> <20100520083732.GI25951@kernel.dk> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 20 May 2010, Jens Axboe wrote: > > The main reason I didn't push it before is that I wasn't completely sure > that we wanted to use fcntl() for this. But Linus doesn't seem to object > on that side at least. Well, I don't object as long as there is some real use-case. If it's a "feature just for the sake of the feature" kind of theoretical "shouldn't we be able to do this" thing, I don't think we should do it. But it sounded like Miklos actually had a reason for the request. Linus