By default lowat is set to zero.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 415664b96d3844d818724e4cacb9d8de2f728af4..3009b73181af5273dec6e175ad60539b416e5d6a 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ See the end for copying conditions.
 
 * Version 2.11.1 (unreleased)
 
+** libgnutls: by default lowat level has been set to zero to avoid unnecessary
+system calls. Applications that depended on it being 1 should explicitly call
+gnutls_transport_set_lowat().
+
 ** libgnutls: Nettle is the default crypto back end. Use --with-libgcrypt
 to use the libgcrypt back end.
 

diff --git a/lib/gnutls_int.h b/lib/gnutls_int.h
index 1475951f1aac40c1e84bc6fcc34d9780ae9122d7..6d3ef8aed539c058e726a8ae81a0874cc4bfd29e 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/gnutls_int.h
+++ b/lib/gnutls_int.h
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ typedef struct
 #define INITIAL_RECV_BUFFER_SIZE 256
 
 /* the default for TCP */
-#define DEFAULT_LOWAT 1
+#define DEFAULT_LOWAT 0
 
 /* expire time for resuming sessions */
 #define DEFAULT_EXPIRE_TIME 3600