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bloonix has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello Monks,

in different code I saw this

my $blksize = (stat($FH))[11] || 16384;

for the maximum bytes for sysread() or syswrite().

My question now is from where comes the value 16384? I don't understand it. Is that a maximum buffer size? Or something else?

Thanks.
Jonny