quick question..

[Erik Aronesty]

I have an app working very well... *except* i now want (need?) to accurately determine if it's "ok to write" (will not block) or "ok to read".  Without SSL, I could do this with a select().. however a select() is clearly not correct when using SSL.   However, SSL_pending() (i think...) only returns > 0 if is there is stuff in the buffer... what if there is "nothing in the buffer, but the socket has real data pending"?  How can the program distinguish that case from "nothing in the buffer, but the socket has nothing more than a key change in it and will block if i read a byte from it"?   It seems to me that there must be some sort of standard "loop" which is roughly equivalent to a SSL_select(...).  A simple and clear way to simply and accurately "wait until either writing or reading will not block or there is an error" ... just like a select() statement.   I think this can be derived from s_client... but I was hoping someone had done it.. or determined that it could not be done.