Re: limits / PIPE_BUF?

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Thu May 04 2006 - 13:19:51 EST


On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 09:39 -0700, Vadim Lobanov wrote:
> How does the kernel
> code ensure that this value is honored, considering that PIPE_BUF is
> not
> referenced in any of the pipe code?


the kernel implementation guarantees one page basically, and on all
architectures that I know of that's at least 4096 bytes


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