On 2014 Jul 02, at 18:07, Jens Alfke <[email protected]> wrote:

> As they said, the buffer of the pipe has a size of 4kbytes. So there cannot 
> ever be more than 4k of available data at a time, because “available” means 
> “sitting in the buffer ready to be copied out”.

On 2014 Jul 02, at 19:07, Scott Ribe <[email protected]> wrote:

> Which means, that until you read the 4K in the buffer, the sending side is 
> blocked.

Ah, that makes sense.  I was taking the “pipe” abstraction a little too 
seriously :))
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