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authorMattias Andrée <maandree@kth.se>2017-06-15 17:03:49 +0200
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@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ one write(2) or vmsplice(2) to the pipe.
Speaking of this overhead, this implementation
is completely useless[1] unless the other
program is will even read {PIPE_BUF} bytes
-(4096 on Linux, 512 on POSIX). Therefore,
+(4096 on Linux, 512 on POSIX) + 2²⁰−2¹⁶ bytes
+(on Linux, unspecified for POSIX). Therefore,
this implementation of yes(1) is just silly
and should not be used by anyone.