[ale] programming: files and such

[charlie]

	I'm working with sockets and multiple clients, and I'm trying to
use select to handle the multiple clients.  HOwever, I need to know how
many bytes to read from socket prior to reading or else I'll block forever.
I'm trying to use ioctl function call to check how many bytes are presently
on the socket, but it doesn't work.  The ioctl function always returns zero
even though clients are currently waiting for the connection.  I can't
seem to find ANY info at all on the ioctl function call.  Usually they
mumble about tapes and say see also fioctl.  Got any ideas?

thanks
charlie



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