Limit to size of pipe

[chris]

Hello!

Further to an earlier message I sent, I now attach an example. This 
tries to send a message of a fixed sized down a pipe. Under windows I 
can't seem to send much more than 25k down in one go, although I can 
send more if I chop it up into sections. Under linux however I can send 
as large amounts as I like. While it is possible to work around it, I 
thought I would mention it in case it was easy to fix, just no-one had 
requested it :)


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Example program follows: setting MSGSIZE>25000ish on my computer causes 
fail (ie pipeval=-1)
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#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#define MSGSIZE 23000
char *msg1 = "message";

void main(void) {
  char inbuf[MSGSIZE];
  int p[2], j;
  int pid;
  if(pipe(p) == -1) exit(1);

  switch(pid = fork()){
  case -1:    exit(2);
  case 0:  /* if child then write down pipe */
    close(p[0]);  /* first close the read end of the pipe */
    write(p[1], msg1, MSGSIZE);
    break;
  default:   /* parent reads pipe */
    close(p[1]);  /* first close the write end of the pipe */
    int pipeval=read(p[0], inbuf, MSGSIZE);
    printf("pipeval:%d\n",pipeval);
    printf("Parent sent: %s\n", inbuf);
    wait(NULL);
  }
}





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