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diff --git a/man7/pipe.7 b/man7/pipe.7 index 78d1ceab2..64a6761d5 100644 --- a/man7/pipe.7 +++ b/man7/pipe.7 @@ -133,6 +133,16 @@ 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 +.BR fcntl (2) +.BR F_GETPIPE_SZ +and +.BR F_SETPIPE_SZ +operations. +See +.BR fcntl (2) +for more information. + .SS PIPE_BUF POSIX.1-2001 says that .BR write (2)s |