Subject: Re: FIONWRITE proposal
To: None <cgd@broadcom.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/13/2004 20:58:41
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On Oct 13, 2004, at 5:56 PM, cgd@broadcom.com wrote:
> Why is "number of bytes which have not yet been 'sent'" the right
> semantics, as opposed to, say, "number of bytes that you can
> immediately write"?
>
> The latter would definitely more akin to the write side of FIONREAD,
> as far as I know...
That is what I originally suggested to Bill... but what do you do for
regular files? Return INT_MAX? 0? EOPNOTSUPP?
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
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