> Cute feature, but it is (I assume) a Linux-specific extension and is > something which we'll need to maintain for ever and it invites Actually it used to work on the old old Linux pipe code. > unportability to older Linuxes and other OSes and it introduces some risk > of breakage of existing applications. And it slows down fstat on a pipe. Most Sys5 based boxes happen to put the right value there but not everyone and its not guaranteed in the slightest > > Given that the info can already be obtained via ioctl(FIONREAD) anyway, I > don't think that (gain > pain)? Nor me - any application trying to reduce the syscall count would just do a very large read and get the data and size in one go. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
