[PATCH v4 06/12] pack-protocol: fix maximum pkt-line size
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- Aug 3, 2016, 16:42 UTC
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From: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
According to LARGE_PACKET_MAX in pkt-line.h the maximal length of a pkt-line packet is 65520 bytes. The pkt-line header takes 4 bytes and therefore the pkt-line data component must not exceed 65516 bytes.
Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> --- Documentation/technical/protocol-common.txt | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/protocol-common.txt b/Documentation/technical/protocol-common.txt index bf30167..ecedb34 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/protocol-common.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/protocol-common.txt @@ -67,9 +67,9 @@ with non-binary data the same whether or not they contain the trailing LF (stripping the LF if present, and not complaining when it is missing). -The maximum length of a pkt-line's data component is 65520 bytes. -Implementations MUST NOT send pkt-line whose length exceeds 65524 -(65520 bytes of payload + 4 bytes of length data). +The maximum length of a pkt-line's data component is 65516 bytes. +Implementations MUST NOT send pkt-line whose length exceeds 65520 +(65516 bytes of payload + 4 bytes of length data). Implementations SHOULD NOT send an empty pkt-line ("0004").
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