Need Non-Blocking Terminal Input Fu

[acheng at uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU]

/* Written 12:27 pm  Jan 22, 1986 by cramer at kontron.UUCP in uiucdcs:net.unix-wizar */
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Does anyone know of a way to do read from a terminal under Berkeley 4.2 UNIX
so that after a specified number of seconds control is returned to the
program if there is no response?  ...
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Try "select(2)".  It has a timeout feature.

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Albert Cheng
acheng at UIUC.ARPA	acheng at UIUC.CSNET	{ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!acheng
Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Illinois-Urbana,
Rm. 240, 1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, IL 61801

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