MAX_PLUGINOUTPUT_LENGTH

Subhendu Ghosh sghosh at sghosh.org
Wed Aug 27 15:15:36 CEST 2003


On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Thomas Soupault wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I would like to know what do I risk if I recompile nagios with a greater
> value than 352 for MAX_PLUGINOUTPUT_LENGTH ?
> 

The result is platform specific.  352 is the lowest common denominator for 
maximum pipe buffer size.  Using larger values can cause data from 
different plugins to be interleaved - and then none of the data would be 
understood...

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-sg



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