MAX_PLUGINOUTPUT_LENGTH

[Jason Marshall]

> > I would like to know what do I risk if I recompile nagios with a greater
> > value than 352 for MAX_PLUGINOUTPUT_LENGTH ?
> 
> The result is platform specific.  352 is the lowest common denominator for 
> maximum pipe buffer size.  Using larger values can cause data from 
> different plugins to be interleaved - and then none of the data would be 
> understood...

On Solaris, you can safely bump this up, as it uses 5120-byte atomic reads
and writes to named pipes, as opposed to Linux's 512-byte atomic
operations on named pipes. 

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