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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2014-07-07 14:33:38 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2014-07-07 14:33:38 +0200 |
| commit | 640a438d9bfdcf42658c5cab6f3bf55cb135750c (patch) | |
| tree | 3cd49be52e778e0e5bed5c54372fd9c0495196b6 | |
| parent | 91d4de6683afa2f1d92e41beef794ef712b9e763 (diff) | |
pipe.7: Clarify that since 2.6.35, 65535 bytes is the default pipe capacity
Reported-by: Walter Harms <wharms@bfs.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/pipe.7 | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man7/pipe.7 b/man7/pipe.7 index 64a6761d5..dc3484d8c 100644 --- a/man7/pipe.7 +++ b/man7/pipe.7 @@ -133,7 +133,8 @@ so that a writing process does not remain blocked. In Linux versions before 2.6.11, the capacity of a pipe was the same as the system page size (e.g., 4096 bytes on i386). Since Linux 2.6.11, the pipe capacity is 65536 bytes. -Since Linux 2.6.35, the pipe capacity can be queried and set using the +Since Linux 2.6.35, the default pipe capacity is 65536 bytes, +but the capacity can be queried and set using the .BR fcntl (2) .BR F_GETPIPE_SZ and |