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From: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: non-blocking read
Message-ID: <237@hou3c.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-Feb-84 14:52:44 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  6 14:52:44 1984
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Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
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Various versions of UNIX provide a FIONREAD ioctl call which checks
for pending input and/or an O_NDELAY flag which can be set by fcntl
to provide nonblocking reads.  Check your manual to see whether you
have either of these.
				Kenneth Almquist