Stdio and DragonFly changes
Oliver Fromme
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Thu Sep 29 10:28:46 PDT 2005
Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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 :-)
Hm. Should't non-blocking I/O be useful in that case?
Best regards
Oliver
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