enami tsugutomo wrote:
> > We have
> > sophisticated pipe optimization and UBC in kernel, don't we?
> 
> I don't think that default stdio buffer size is optimal, btw.

Never checked that, but AFAIK stdio uses whatever stat(2)
on the descriptor says about block size, and pipe_stat()
reports PIPE_SIZE (16K) as the block size.

Jaromir 
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