MAX_PLUGINOUTPUT_LENGTH

Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk roy at karlsbakk.net
Sat Aug 30 11:17:57 CEST 2003


> > 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...
>
> On Solaris, you can safely bump this up, as it uses 5120-byte atomic reads
> and writes to named pipes, as opposed to Linux's 512-byte atomic
> operations on named pipes.

Any idea where this is set in kernel? would it be possible to change this
in kernel without changing glibc?

roy


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