On Jul 2, 2014, at 7:07 PM, Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote:

> 
> On Jul 2, 2014, at 5:58 PM, Jerry Krinock <je...@ieee.org> wrote:
> 
>> What might it be doing at these 4K breaks that causes NSFileHandle’s 
>> -availableData to stop?
> 
> 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”.
> 
> —Jens

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

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