Stdio and DragonFly changes

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Thu Sep 29 10:07:41 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





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