Re: Stdio and DragonFly changes

[Oliver Fromme <check+inl9n800rskt3f59@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@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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