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Re: Function to determine the number of chars in a FILE buffer

From Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c, comp.unix.programmer, comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject Re: Function to determine the number of chars in a FILE buffer
Date 2011-09-01 11:02 +0000
Organization Dis (not Dat) Organisation
Message-ID <j3nool$e4p$1@reversiblemaps.ath.cx> (permalink)
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On 2011-09-01, tm <thomas.mertes@gmx.at> wrote:

> Without fbufsize() even setting a file to no buffering with
> setvbuf() will probably not lead to a solution: An ungetc() may
> have happened and there is no way to find out if the next char
> read with getc() will be the one provided with ungetc(). Since
> a getc() after an ungetc() will not block inputReady() should
> return 1 in this case.

basically you can't do non blockin IO using the stdio library
in a way that's likely to continue to work.

try somethine else (eg: glib )

http://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-IO-Channels.html


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Re: Function to determine the number of chars in a FILE buffer tm <thomas.mertes@gmx.at> - 2011-08-31 23:54 -0700
  Re: Function to determine the number of chars in a FILE buffer Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2011-09-01 11:02 +0000
    Re: Function to determine the number of chars in a FILE buffer tm <thomas.mertes@gmx.at> - 2011-09-01 05:44 -0700
  Re: Function to determine the number of chars in a FILE buffer David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> - 2011-09-01 04:41 -0700

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