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From: rlk@chinet.UUCP (Richard Klappal)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: ioctl()
Message-ID: <521@chinet.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 26-Aug-86 23:16:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: chinet.521
Posted: Tue Aug 26 23:16:40 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 27-Aug-86 20:48:05 EDT
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In article <118@aahus.UUCP> jorgen@aahus.UUCP (Joergen Haegg) writes:

> Is there anybody who knows what the following commands
> to ioctl() does. I'm trying to port software to a Xenix-compatible
> computer, and need to convert these into somthing my machine understands.
> FIONREAD
> TIOCSLTC
> TIOCGLTC


ioctl(fildes,FIONREAD,arg)
where arg is a pointer to a long,
sets arg to be the number of immediately readable characters from
fildes.  It is supposed to work for files, pipes, and ttys on
berzerkly systems.   

Sorry, can't help on the other two, my system doesn't have them
(at least in the docs.)


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