On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@xxxxxx> wrote: > I don't know every platform of the planet well enough to be helpful here, > especially the ones which don't follow all the specifications. > > In other words: As long as we can not guarantee that SSIZE_MAX is defined, > (and is defined to somethong useful for xread()/xwrite() ) > we should be more defensive here: > > tweak only on platform where we know it is needed and we know that it works. Yup, I agree that is a sensible way to go. (1) if Makefile overrides the size, use it; otherwise (2) if SSIZE_MAX is defined, and it is smaller than our internal default, use it; otherwise (3) use our internal default. And leave our internal default to 8MB. That way, nobody needs to do anything differently from his current build set-up, and I suspect that it would make step (1) optional. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html