From 640a438d9bfdcf42658c5cab6f3bf55cb135750c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 14:33:38 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] pipe.7: Clarify that since 2.6.35, 65535 bytes is the default pipe capacity Reported-by: Walter Harms Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man7/pipe.7 | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man7/pipe.7 b/man7/pipe.7 index 64a6761d5..dc3484d8c 100644 --- a/man7/pipe.7 +++ b/man7/pipe.7 @@ -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