(in)appropriate uses for MAXBSIZE

Hans Petter Selasky hselasky at c2i.net
Fri Apr 9 09:27:38 UTC 2010


On Friday 09 April 2010 10:18:37 Andriy Gapon wrote:
> As you know MAXBSIZE is currently defined to 64K (seems to a popular value
>  for constants).  There is the following comment for this parameter and its
>  value:
> 

> 
> Feedback welcome.
> Thanks!
> 

Hi,

Some hardware will break if you do more than 64K at a time. Especially USB 
memory sticks.

--HPS


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