Hi Christian,

       Thansk a lot for quick reply.

>>        I am developing an application where I need to check whether a
>> socket is ready for write or not. I can do that using select, poll or
>> kqueue and I have chosen 'kqueue' to do it.

> Excellent choice.

>>        Before adding the socket to 'kqueue', I want to check if there
>> is enough space in socket buffer for a write to be successful.

> Why before? Well, see FIONSPACE in ioctl(2).

I just found that this has been introduced in new revision. I was
using NetBSD 2.0.

>> My first question is that is there a IOCTL/GETSOCKOPT option using which I
>> can find out the space available in the send socket buffer?

> See kqueue(2) and EVFILT_WRITE:

>      EVFILT_WRITE   Takes a descriptor as the identifier, and returns whenever
>                     it is possible to write to the descriptor.  For sockets,
>                    pipes, fifos, and ttys, data will contain the amount of
>                    space remaining in the write buffer.

Yes. I had looked at it when I choose to use 'kqueue'.

If someone can answer my other questions as well, I would be able to
decide how and what to use in my application.

Thanks & Regards,
Bharat

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