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Re: linuxthreads tst-cancel4.c et al.


On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 16:24:10 -0400
Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:

> I couldn't think of anything - see my earlier posts about
> nptl/tst-cancel17.c, which is the same problem.  Linus clarified that
> there is no reason to expect writes to a pipe to block, so the numbers
> are liable to change again the next time he gets inspired.

It's even variable _now_ on the same platform.  On IA64 for
example, the pipe write buffer size depends upon PAGE_SIZE
which is configurable.  Sparc64 has a similar kernel config
option now as well.


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