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From: kender@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Too hot to handle)
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Subject: Checking an fd for pending data (sans select(3))
Summary: I wanna check an fd for pending data
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Date: 2 Aug 89 01:22:52 GMT
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I'd like a function (in C for all you fortran holdouts) that would tell me
if there is data on the stream to read, this would be ideal:
	if (pending(fd) == 1) { /* there is data to read
		... read data ...
	} else {		/* no data...we can go on */
		...
	}

this is for SYS V and I'm sans a select...so keep that in mind.
thanx in advance.
-k
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