On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 5:17 PM Patrick Smith <pat42sm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not a general solution, but if you are only writing a small amount of > data, you can simply write it to the pipe and then exec the other program: > https://play.golang.org/p/e0UQRE6SsT4 > > If I recall correctly, many years ago you would have been able to write > 256 bytes this way. No doubt someone else can tell you the current limit. > It's platform dependent. I've been programming for a living since 1979 and doing so on UNIX since ~1985. I can't recall any implementation where the pipe buffer was less than 512 bytes; although it wouldn't surprise me if the very first UNIX implementation running on a PDP-11 used the 256 byte buffer you mention. These days you can safely assume at least a 4 KiB buffer. -- Kurtis Rader Caretaker of the exceptional canines Junior and Hank -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CABx2%3DD_b9PEQ81OrdduDn9BH797T0qE7nq1rn9qPUejtun8vkg%40mail.gmail.com.
