i want to use ioctl() to get the number of bytes ready to be read
the way I did it is:
mysocket=socket(....);
ioctl(mysocket, FIONBIO, &zero);
connect(.....);
ioctl( mysocket, FIONREAD, &numBytes );
read(mysocket, buffer, numBytes);
this was working fine in unix, now i have to port it to linux i keep getting ERROR
error: 'FIONBIO' was not declared in this scope
Is there some header file specific for linux? or 'FIOBIO' doesnt work at all in linux?
I have following headers included:
#include <cstring>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <stropts.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stddef.h>
#include <sys/un.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/select.h>
#include <fstream>
and i removed
#include <sys/filio.h>
since it was throwing errors saying sys/filio.h not found
Have you tried including sys/ioctl.h?
This code works for me:
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
printf("FIONBIO value %d\n", FIONBIO);
}
When I execute grep -R FIONBIO /usr/include
, it's found here:
/usr/include/asm-generic/ioctls.h:#define FIONBIO 0x5421