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From: Leisner.Henr@rocksanne.UUCP (marty leisner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: unblocked reads on pc
Message-ID: <3105@rocksanne.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Mar-87 15:01:52 EST
Article-I.D.: rocksann.3105
Posted: Thu Mar  5 15:01:52 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 8-Mar-87 01:25:58 EST
Organization: Xerox: Webster Research Center, Rochester, NY
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Are there mechanisms to perform no delay reads on file handles in ms-dos?
 
I'm using Aztec C 3.4 and they don't seems to support no-delay reads.
 
I looked at the dos manual, and it doesn't seem to support no-delay read
requests.
 
It seems I really would like to be able to implement a select call on a
bunch of file descriptors so I know which ones are ready for input.  Essentially,
I want to ask:  which file descriptors have pending input?
 
Anyone have any ideas how to implement this?  Anyone already implemented it?
 
 
marty leisner
xerox corp.
leisner.henr@xerox.com (preferred location)
martyl@rocksvax.uucp   (alternate address)