On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Andrew Brown wrote:

> >> If `fixing it' means calling socketpair() from userspace and doing any
> >> necessary frobbing there, it actually means *reducing* kernel size (...and
> >> relegating pipe(2) to COMPAT_14).
> >
> >pipe(2) is defined to be one-way. socketpair(2) creates a two-way pipe.
> >
> >I didn't find any obvious way in the manual page to suppress one of the ways.
> >Hm. The libc wrapper could partially shutdown(2) the ends, I guess....
> 
> would that even matter?  if you get back a two-way pipe, it can still
> be used as a one-way pipe.
> 
> for that matter...i still don't see the harm in making the kernel
> copyout() the pipe fds.  how would that not solve the problem (besides
> losing a little history)?

[Hmm.... Looks like this is getting to be a long CC: list]

It would matter if we ever decide to support an emulation with a different
integer size.  Luckily the only interesting emulations at the moment are
ILP32 and LP64 where the sizeof(int) == 4, but if we ever decide to
support ILP64 (such as HAL's implementation of 64-bit Solaris), since the
copyin()/copyout() is handled in the body of the syscall we would need to
re-implement the entire syscall inside the emulation wrapper.

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