From: Dan Fandrich <dan@coneharvesters.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:17:53 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Mention the minimum size of CURL_MAX_WRITE_SIZE
X-Git-Tag: curl-7_20_1~186
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=99f366adf92e940ea8178da35c4189f5206bd716;p=thirdparty%2Fcurl.git

Mention the minimum size of CURL_MAX_WRITE_SIZE
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diff --git a/include/curl/curl.h b/include/curl/curl.h
index 3f5c49a27d..155913af48 100644
--- a/include/curl/curl.h
+++ b/include/curl/curl.h
@@ -177,7 +177,9 @@ typedef int (*curl_progress_callback)(void *clientp,
   /* Tests have proven that 20K is a very bad buffer size for uploads on
      Windows, while 16K for some odd reason performed a lot better.
      We do the ifndef check to allow this value to easier be changed at build
-     time for those who feel adventurous. */
+     time for those who feel adventurous. The practical minimum is about
+     400 bytes since libcurl uses a buffer of this size as a scratch area
+     (unrelated to network send operations). */
 #define CURL_MAX_WRITE_SIZE 16384
 #endif