FIONREAD

[Curtis Yarvin]

In article <11473 at dog.ee.lbl.gov> torek at elf.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek) writes:
>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

This is no doubt why Ultrix, at least, buried it deep within the bowels of
the tty(4) page.  Thanks to everyone who replied.

curtis

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