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From: Brennan Peter Sellner <bsellner AT andrew DOT cmu DOT edu>
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Subject: Support for the TIOCINQ ioctl
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By any chance, has support for the TIOCINQ ioctl on file descriptors 
(used to check how many bytes of data are in the input buffer) been 
added to Cygwin?  It hadn't as of 2004:

   http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2004-07/msg00910.html

...but I haven't found any newer references to it.  I'm inferring that 
it's not supported, as ioctl(fd, TIOCINQ, &available) (where fd is a valid 
file descriptor, and available is a long) fails, with errno set to 
'invalid argument'.  I'm running Cygwin 1.7.6 on Vista.

I'm hoping I'm missing something...  Is there an alternative way to check 
the number of bytes on an fd's input buffer in Cygwin?

Thanks,

-Brennan


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