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From: sms@WLV.IMSD.CONTEL.COM (Steven M. Schultz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Strange SUN behaviour.
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Date: 23 Oct 89 19:40:13 GMT
References: <218@oasis.mrcu> <219@oasis.mrcu> <ROWE.89Oct23093452@rosie.cme.nist.gov>
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In article <ROWE.89Oct23093452@rosie.cme.nist.gov> rowe@cme.nist.gov
(Walter Rowe) writes:
>Here is another possibility for you:
>
>    ioctl (fd, FIONREAD, &nchar)
>    int fd;
>    int nchar;
>
>The value returned in `nchar' is the number of characters waiting to
>be read from file descriptor `fd'.

	int nchar;

	should be 
	
	long nchar;

	sizeof (int) != sizeof (long)


	Steven M. Schultz
	sms@wlv.imsd.contel.com