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It's true of qio files in general, including pipes.

I've used it often to know how much I can read without blocking.
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> > simpler might be: seekable = seek(fd, 0, 2) > 0;
>
> now you're talking.

pity it doesn't work on /net/tcp/0/data.

but i always thought that using the file size for "amount of unbuffered data"
was a nasty thing to do... does anything actually use that property?

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