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Top Forums Programming Number of bytes in terminal input queue w/o blocking and consuming? Post 302282240 by fpmurphy on Friday 30th of January 2009 11:06:43 AM
Old 01-30-2009
There is no standard API for returning this information. You need to use the FIONREAD ioctl if it is available on your platform. Typical code would be something like the following.
Code:
  #include <sys/ioctl.h>

  int chars_avail;
  int result;

  result = ioctl (tty, FIONREAD, &chars_avail);

 

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IOCTL(2)							System Calls Manual							  IOCTL(2)

NAME
ioctl - control device SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/ioctl.h> int ioctl(int d, int request, void *argp) (Minix) int ioctl(int d, ioreq_t request, void *argp) (Minix-vmd) DESCRIPTION
Ioctl performs a variety of functions on open descriptors. In particular, many operating characteristics of character special files (e.g. terminals) may be controlled with ioctl requests. The writeups of various devices in section 4 discuss how ioctl applies to them. An ioctl request has encoded in it whether the argument is an "in" parameter or "out" parameter, and the size of the argument argp in bytes. Macros and defines used in specifying an ioctl request are located in the file <sys/ioctl.h>. RETURN VALUE
If an error has occurred, a value of -1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the error. ERRORS
Ioctl will fail if one or more of the following are true: [EBADF] D is not a valid descriptor. [ENOTTY] D is not associated with a character special device. [ENOTTY] The specified request does not apply to the kind of object that the descriptor d references. [EINVAL] Request or argp is not valid. SEE ALSO
execve(2), fcntl(2), mt(4), tty(4), intro(4). 4th Berkeley Distribution March 4, 1986 IOCTL(2)
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