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PIPE and FIFO buffer size

Hello!
How I can increase (or decrease) the predefined pipe buffer size?
Thanks!

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If you have linux.

Search in the linux kernel c code for PIPE_SIZE

You will have to recompile the kernel, because there is no shell way to do this as far as I know.

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