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-rw-r--r--ext/io/wait/wait.c26
2 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 9e458f3da1..3c06fa8892 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Mon Dec 29 18:02:45 2008 Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org>
+
+ * ext/io/wait/wait.c (io_nread): returns number of bytes available
+ for read. response to feature request #936 in [ruby-core:20917].
+
Mon Dec 29 17:52:16 2008 Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org>
* ext/io/wait/wait.c (io_ready_p): updated to follow RDoc.
diff --git a/ext/io/wait/wait.c b/ext/io/wait/wait.c
index 24e4141162..b73c9af1ce 100644
--- a/ext/io/wait/wait.c
+++ b/ext/io/wait/wait.c
@@ -44,6 +44,31 @@ EXTERN struct timeval rb_time_interval _((VALUE time));
/*
* call-seq:
+ * io.nread -> int
+ *
+ * Returns number of bytes that can be read without blocking.
+ * Returns zero if no information available.
+ */
+
+static VALUE
+io_nread(VALUE io)
+{
+ rb_io_t *fptr;
+ int len;
+ ioctl_arg n;
+
+ GetOpenFile(io, fptr);
+ rb_io_check_readable(fptr);
+ len = rb_io_read_pending(fptr);
+ if (len > 0) return len;
+ if (!FIONREAD_POSSIBLE_P(fptr->fd)) return INT2FIX(0);
+ if (ioctl(fptr->fd, FIONREAD, &n)) return INT2FIX(0);
+ if (n > 0) return ioctl_arg2num(n);
+ return INT2FIX(0);
+}
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
* io.ready? -> true, false or nil
*
* Returns true if input available without blocking, or false.
@@ -137,6 +162,7 @@ io_wait(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE io)
void
Init_wait()
{
+ rb_define_method(rb_cIO, "nread", io_nread, 0);
rb_define_method(rb_cIO, "ready?", io_ready_p, 0);
rb_define_method(rb_cIO, "wait", io_wait, -1);
}