Re: Pipe buffers' limit of 16 * 4K

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Thursday 2008-05-29 15:19, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 10:00 -0300, Fausto Richetti Blanco wrote:
>
>Why not use a socketpair() instead of a pipe(). You can adjust the size
>with setsockopt SO_SNDBUF/SO_RCVBUF (see man socket(7))

Nah, if there's lots of POST requests, and a large buffer for
each of it, you may end up running into allocation failures.
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