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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: How big is BUFSIZ on your system?
Message-ID: <7356@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 23 Apr 91 17:49:55 GMT
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>BLKSIZ is only used when this info is not available.

Or if you use "setbuf()", in which case the info, even though it's
available, isn't usable; "setbuf()" is, for historical and other
reasons, obliged to assume that the buffer you've handed it is BUFSIZ
"char"s in size.