LDP: Update original to LDP v3.75

[linuxjm/LDP_man-pages.git] / original / man7 / pipe.7

diff --git a/original/man7/pipe.7 b/original/man7/pipe.7
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+++ b/original/man7/pipe.7
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
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-.TH PIPE 7 2005-12-08 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH PIPE 7 2014-07-08 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 pipe \- overview of pipes and FIFOs
 .SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -133,6 +133,17 @@ 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 default pipe capacity is 65536 bytes,
+but the 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
@@ -242,7 +253,7 @@ bidirectional pipe semantics.
 .BR epoll (7),
 .BR fifo (7)
 .SH COLOPHON
-This page is part of release 3.68 of the Linux
+This page is part of release 3.75 of the Linux
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