On 07/06/2014 03:44 PM, Elie De Brauwer wrote: > In fcntl(2) F_SETPIPE_SZ, F_GETPIPE_SZ and /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size are > defined, however pipe(7) still defines the pipe capacity as being a static > entity. Adding a reference to fcntl(2). Hi Elie, Thanks for that! Applied. Cheers, Michael > Signed-off-by: Elie De Brauwer <eliedebrauwer@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > man7/pipe.7 | 10 ++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/man7/pipe.7 b/man7/pipe.7 > index 78d1cea..64a6761 100644 > --- a/man7/pipe.7 > +++ b/man7/pipe.7 > @@ -133,6 +133,16 @@ 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 > +.BR fcntl (2) > +.BR F_GETPIPE_SZ > +and > +.BR F_SETPIPE_SZ > +operations. > +See > +.BR fcntl (2) > +for more information. > + > .SS PIPE_BUF > POSIX.1-2001 says that > .BR write (2)s > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
