Stdio and DragonFly changes

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Thu Sep 29 10:24:30 PDT 2005


:
:On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 04:15:32PM +0000, Oliver Fromme wrote:
:> In my opinion, an application which wants to know the size
:> of stdio's buffer is badly designed.
:
:The application doesn't want to know the actual size of the buffer, it
:just wants to know whether any data is inside. This is useful e.g. when
:dealing with network traffics to avoid hangs :-)
:
:Joerg

   Feh.  It shouldn't be using stdio at all, then.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>





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