FIONREAD

[Chris Torek]

In article <69819 at brunix.UUCP> cgy at cs.brown.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
>What is the most elegant way of duplicating Sun's FIONREAD ioctl, which
>gets the number of bytes readable from a descriptor, on 4.3BSD systems?

The `most elegant' is to avoid it altogether---FIONREAD tends to induce
races---but by far the simplest method of duplicating Sun's FIONREAD
ioctl is to note that Sun *got* it from 4BSD.  All you have to do is
use it.
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