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From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
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What is the (preferred) way to figure out how much data is waiting 
on the receive buffer on a socket? I'm running largish >1M 
receive buffers and would like to log a warning message if the 
buffers ever get used near-full.

Pete

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