Re: What to expect after 0.99.8

From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Oct 4, 2005, 17:40 UTC
Message-ID: <4342BE9B.5010409@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0510041213460.23242@iabervon.org>

Daniel Barkalow wrote:

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> 
> I actually mean UNIX (a.k.a. PF_LOCAL) sockets; git-ssh-fetch is connected 
> to ssh via sockets from "socketpair()". Looks like you can set the buffer 
> size with a socket option here, too, but I doubt ssh will try setting 
> socket options on standard in and out, and git-ssh-fetch leaves them at 
> their defaults. I'm not clear where the defaults for these come from in 
> general.
>

Well, git-ssh-fetch could set both SO_SNDBUF and SO_RCVBUF if it cared.

For portability, it would be a good thing to explicitly set the buffer size rather than just blindly assume it can hold a specific amount of data.

	-hpa