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TIOCOUTQ - buffer count and flushing

NAME  LIBRARY  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  RETURN VALUE  SEE ALSO 

NAME

FIONREAD, TIOCINQ, TIOCOUTQ, TCFLSH, TIOCSERGETLSR − buffer count and flushing

LIBRARY

Standard C library (libc−lc)

SYNOPSIS

#include <asm/termbits.h> /* Definition of constants */
#include <sys/ioctl.h>

int ioctl(int fd, FIONREAD, int *argp);
int ioctl(int
fd, TIOCINQ, int *argp);
int ioctl(int
fd, TIOCOUTQ, int *argp);
int ioctl(int
fd, TCFLSH, int arg);
int ioctl(int
fd, TIOCSERGETLSR, int *argp);

DESCRIPTION

FIONREAD

Get the number of bytes in the input buffer.

TIOCINQ

Same as FIONREAD.

TIOCOUTQ

Get the number of bytes in the output buffer.

TCFLSH

Equivalent to tcflush(fd, arg).

See tcflush(3) for the argument values TCIFLUSH, TCOFLUSH, TCIOFLUSH.

TIOCSERGETLSR

Get line status register. Status register has TIOCSER_TEMT bit set when output buffer is empty and also hardware transmitter is physically empty.

Does not have to be supported by all serial tty drivers.

tcdrain(3) does not wait and returns immediately when TIOCSER_TEMT bit is set.

RETURN VALUE

On success, 0 is returned. On error, −1 is returned, and errno is set to indicate the error.

SEE ALSO

ioctl(2), ioctl_tty(2), tcflush(3), termios(3)


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