# std: Limit the read/write size on Darwin · gitcafe/zig

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Commit: 5e50d145d964238a68d4780e253d26431e7c7994

Tree: 4f7cbc281a0efeb742372c36f8c2dd9f41a5f988

Author: LemonBoy

Committer: Andrew Kelley

## Message

```
std: Limit the read/write size on Darwin

It turns out that the kernel won't read or write more than 0x7fffffff
bytes in a single call, failing with EINVAL when trying to do so.

Adjust the limit and curse whoever is responsible for this.

Closes #6332

```

## Parents

- [9fe4c89230df2d78c8bf37b4b1d7a9bedb92677b](https://git.cafe/gitcafe/zig/commit/9fe4c89230df2d78c8bf37b4b1d7a9bedb92677b?format=markdown)

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