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From: jeff@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG (Jeff Holmes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: select() system call
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Date: 10 Jan 90 17:12:37 GMT
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	Could someone who understands the select() system call
	better than I do tell me...

		if there is any way to get select() to 
		tell me HOW MANY characters there are
		in the buffer that are waiting to be
		read, similar to using FIONREAD with
		ioctl() under BSD?

	Thank you,
		Jeff

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