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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>
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Michael Kerrisk 2014-07-07 14:33:38 +02:00
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@ -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