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pipe.7: wfix 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2015-04-18 12:17:27 +02:00
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@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ See
for more information.
.SS PIPE_BUF
POSIX.1-2001 says that
POSIX.1 says that
.BR write (2)s
of less than
.B PIPE_BUF
@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ Writes of more than
.B PIPE_BUF
bytes may be nonatomic: the kernel may interleave the data
with data written by other processes.
POSIX.1-2001 requires
POSIX.1 requires
.B PIPE_BUF
to be at least 512 bytes.
(On Linux,
@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ is supported for pipes and FIFOs only since kernel 2.6.
.SS Portability notes
On some systems (but not Linux), pipes are bidirectional:
data can be transmitted in both directions between the pipe ends.
According to POSIX.1-2001, pipes need only need be unidirectional.
According to POSIX.1, pipes need only need be unidirectional.
Portable applications should avoid reliance on
bidirectional pipe semantics.
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