The pipe capacity section makes no indication that the default capacity of pipes may not be `16 * PAGE_SIZE` for users exceeding the `pipe_user_pages_soft` limit. Signed-off-by: Kienan Stewart <kstewart@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- man/man7/pipe.7 | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/man/man7/pipe.7 b/man/man7/pipe.7 index c7f3fbb9e..3d853d27c 100644 --- a/man/man7/pipe.7 +++ b/man/man7/pipe.7 @@ -131,6 +131,9 @@ operations. See .BR fcntl (2) for more information. +Since Linux 4.5, the default pipe capacity is lower than 16 pages when the +.I pipe\-user\-pages\-soft +limit is exceeded. .P The following .BR ioctl (2) -- 2.45.2
