Rtems telnetd/shell question (and Why does fgetc() return 0 for a 0-length socket read?)

[Peter Dufault]

On Oct 28, 2009, at 6:11 , Chris Johns wrote:

> I suspect we need to handle a read of the fd better. Closing a  
> remote end of a socket always returns a length of 0. I do not know  
> how this is handled with fget.

I'm just sitting down to look a this, and the first thing I'm asking  
is how can fgetc() return 0 when the socket it is buffering returns a  
0 length read?  Since 0 is a valid return for fgetc() this doesn't  
make any sense.  I don't have too much time to write test programs  
right now so I'm throwing out this question: can fgetc() return 0 for  
a zero length read on an underlying socket, or is there a new lower- 
level bug that is screwing things up?

The fgetc() man page isn't clear and I didn't come up with an internet  
search to get the answer.

Peter