On Wed, 19 May 2010, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > One issue I see is that it's possible to grow pipes indefinitely. > Should this be restricted to privileged users? Yes. But perhaps only if it grows past the default (or perhaps "default*2" or similar). That way a normal user could shrink the pipe buffers, and then grow them again if he wants to. Oh, and I think you need to also require that there be at least two buffers. Otherwise we can't guarantee POSIX behavior, I think. Linus -- 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
