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[Jason Marshall]

> POSIX compliant systems _must_ not interleave messages wriiten to a FIFO 
> that are less than 512 bytes.
> 
> POSIX compliant systems may have a larger value than this, but 512 is
> the largest value you can assume for portability.
> 
> On this FreeBSD 4.7 system, the pipe buffer size is 512 bytes,

Okay, that makes sense.  My version of Nagios is no longer POSIX
compliant, but that's fine by me *8-)

---
Jason Marshall, Unix Geek, Kelman Technologies, Inc., Calgary, AB, Canada.

  From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680):
    "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey."

  "I have great faith in fools: 
     Self confidence my friends call it."  -Edgar Allan Poe




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