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From: jb@CS.BROWN.EDU
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Subject: Re: st_blksize value from fstat(2) on pipes (Multimax, UMAX4.2)
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Date: 14 Mar 90 00:50:34 GMT
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What you are seing is an artifact of 4.2BSD.  4.3BSD changed fstat to
return the buffer size associciated with the socket.  I'd assume that
UMAX4.3 will have this fix when it comes out.

				Jim Bloom