From 705a79f82560ff6472cebed86aa5db04cdea3bce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Florian Weimer Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 14:59:27 +0100 Subject: libio: Limit buffer size to 8192 bytes [BZ #4099] This avoids overly large buffers with network file systems which report very large block sizes. --- NEWS | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 9a45e73..b2a0b0f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -80,6 +80,12 @@ Version 2.25 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces, if they are compiled or used with those options. +* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192 + bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most + file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on + network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be + as large as several megabytes. + * The header now includes the header. Support for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has been removed. -- cgit v1.1