How big is BUFSIZ on your system?

Dik T. Winter dik at cwi.nl
Sun Apr 14 11:30:55 AEST 1991


In article <1991Apr12.164916.12188 at snitor.uucp> rmc at snitor.UUCP (Russell Crook) writes:
 > It gets worse.  In our environment, we have three BUFSIZ's
 > to contend with: 4096 on our MIPS 2030s, 2048 on the Targon/35s
 > (Pyramid 90x in other clothes), and 1024 on everything else
 > (five other machine/OS types).  I wouldn't be surprised if something like
 > UNICOS uses something even bigger (8192 or even 16384).
Having access to an YMP I cannot let this go.  It is true:
#define	BUFSIZ	(4096*8)
(you do the arithmetic yourself!).
--
dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland
dik at cwi.nl



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