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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2010-06-19 04:40:23 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2010-06-19 04:40:23 +0200 |
| commit | b2d3abb84798e79192cd55d2ebe98aa11e569cae (patch) | |
| tree | 3d7c316c1c096c32e013347e27a70b7df05ecc16 /man5 | |
| parent | bc92ddbb15bdddf1599e2a946d46eb153d758534 (diff) | |
proc.5: Improve description of /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man5')
| -rw-r--r-- | man5/proc.5 | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5 index 5efc3f88..8e1e4cc5 100644 --- a/man5/proc.5 +++ b/man5/proc.5 @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ .\" to see what information could be imported from that file .\" into this file. .\" -.TH PROC 5 2010-06-17 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH PROC 5 2010-06-19 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME proc \- process information pseudo-file system .SH DESCRIPTION @@ -1921,8 +1921,13 @@ of a pipe using the .BR fcntl (2) .B F_SETPIPE_SZ operation. -This limit applies only to unpriviliged processes. +This limit applies only to unprivileged processes. The default value for this file is 1,048,576. +The value assigned to this file may be rounded upward, +to reflect the value actually employed for a convenient implementation. +To determine the rounded-up value, +display the contents of this file after assigning a value to it. +The minimum value that can be assigned to this file is the system page size. .TP .IR /proc/sys/fs/suid_dumpable " (since Linux 2.6.13)" .\" The following is based on text from Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt |