IPC/Sockets and blocking revisited...[THANKS]
Jonathan I. Kamens
jik at athena.mit.edu
Mon Feb 18 08:48:01 AEST 1991
In article <1991Feb16.225731.20445 at en.ecn.purdue.edu>, hoff at en.ecn.purdue.edu (Michael Hoefflinger) writes:
|> Since I got such a quick and working response on my last question,
|> I think I will abuse this living user's manual some more:
"Abuse" is the right word. (1/2 :-)
|> --> Question is, how can I execute a getchar() that will return with
|> EOF immediately if the user has not typed anything, or with
|> the char as soon as it is typed? The problem is that getchar
|> is buffered I/O, and apparently _fillbuf() doesn't exit back to
|> getchar until a carriage return is executed.
This is question 5 on the "Frequently Asked Questions about Unix - with
Answers" posting to comp.unix.questions. If you can't get a hold of it at
your site, E-mail me and I'll send it to you.
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