Non-Blocking Input in C++

[Otac0n]

This seems to be an impossible task, but here goes:

Im looking for a C++ stl non-blocking input routine.
I would normally be able to whip one up myself,
if the STL functions were behaving in MSVC++.

(This doesnt have to be portable necessarily, but at least mus work on
VC++)

I have:
-----------------------------------------------
// Fastforward
std::cin.seekg(std::ios_base::end);

// Execute all commands available in the buffer
while((int)std::cin.tellg() > 0)
{
// Rewind
std::cin.seekg(0);

// Extrapolate one line from the stream
std::cin.getline(buffer, 99, '\n');
command = buffer;
Execute(command);

// Fastforward
std::cin.seekg(std::ios_base::end);
}
-----------------------------------------------

But that seems to get stuck inside the while-loop after the first line
of text is passed (through a pipe).

It should also be noted that in every state of execution,
cin.rdbuf()->in_avail()
returns zero.

If someone could shed light on WHY
(int)std::cin.tellg()
returns 2 at the end of an empty input stream, that would be
appreciated as well.

Thank you in advance,
John Gietzen
"Spoonful of Tactic"

[Jack Klein]

On 16 Oct 2005 07:41:53 -0700, "Otac0n" <Sp**************@gmail.com>
wrote in comp.lang.c++:

This seems to be an impossible task, but here goes:

Im looking for a C++ stl non-blocking input routine.
I would normally be able to whip one up myself,
if the STL functions were behaving in MSVC++.

[snip]

There is no such thing as non-blocking input defined by the C++
language. You need a Windows specific solution,
news:comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32 is a good place to ask.

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* Jack Klein:

On 16 Oct 2005 07:41:53 -0700, "Otac0n" <Sp**************@gmail.com>
wrote in comp.lang.c++:

This seems to be an impossible task, but here goes:

Im looking for a C++ stl non-blocking input routine.
I would normally be able to whip one up myself,
if the STL functions were behaving in MSVC++.

[snip]

There is no such thing as non-blocking input defined by the C++
language.

Uh, there is... Trouble is, it's not guaranteed to work (which is as one
would expect with standard streams: very little there is guaranteed to work).
I hate standard streams so I won't look it up for the OP, but perhaps someone
else will.

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[Otac0n]

Well, if I could merely COUNT exactly how many characters were in an in
stream without blocking, then i could devise my own solution, but as it
stands, none of the methods i have devised for that have worked.