Pipe buffer size is 4k or 64k?

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The other answers tell you that the pipe size is 64 KB. The reason why PIPE_BUF is 4KB is that PIPE_BUF is the largest size for which writes are guaranteed to be atomic. See http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/write.html

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