How can I "peek" at the keyboard without suspending?

[Jeffrey Hiess]

Something like getchar() doesn't work, since it "waits" for input.
#include <stdio.h>
while (1)
{
if (getchar()) /* break if any key is pressed */
{
break;
}

/* lot's of other code goes here */
}

[Andreas Kahari]

In article <f5**************************@posting.google.com >, Jeffrey Hiess wrote:

Something like getchar() doesn't work, since it "waits" for input.

Read this FAQ:

http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/q19.1.html
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Andreas Kähäri

[Irrwahn Grausewitz]

Andreas Kahari <ak*******@freeshell.org> wrote:

In article <f5**************************@posting.google.com >, Jeffrey Hiess wrote:

Something like getchar() doesn't work, since it "waits" for input.

Read this FAQ:

http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/q19.1.html

To OP: in future please cross-post your message instead of
multi-posting. Your question has already been answered in
alt.comp.lang.learn.c-c++. Thank you.

Regards
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(ir*******@freenet.de)

[Dan Pop]

In <f5**************************@posting.google.com > je***********@honeywell.com (Jeffrey Hiess) writes:

Something like getchar() doesn't work, since it "waits" for input.

Ever considered reading the FAQ *before* posting?

Dan
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Email: Da*****@ifh.de

[Jeffrey Hiess]

Da*****@cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote in message news:<bq**********@sunnews.cern.ch>...

In <f5**************************@posting.google.com > je***********@honeywell.com (Jeffrey Hiess) writes:

Something like getchar() doesn't work, since it "waits" for input.

Ever considered reading the FAQ *before* posting?

Dan

Did I miss something? Which FAQ? Please expound. I'm posting from
Google Groups.

On the topic of the original post, I am hesitant to write platform
specific code to avoid suspending. Instead, I was pondering the idea
of forking a sub process which would call getchar() (and suspend) and
then main process could monitor the sub process for a signal to take
action. My multi-threading coding skills are a bit rusty, but it seems
like this would work.

[Keith Thompson]

je***********@honeywell.com (Jeffrey Hiess) writes:

Da*****@cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote in message
news:<bq**********@sunnews.cern.ch>...

In <f5**************************@posting.google.com >
je***********@honeywell.com (Jeffrey Hiess) writes:

Something like getchar() doesn't work, since it "waits" for input.

Ever considered reading the FAQ *before* posting?

Dan

Did I miss something? Which FAQ? Please expound. I'm posting from
Google Groups.

On the topic of the original post, I am hesitant to write platform
specific code to avoid suspending. Instead, I was pondering the idea
of forking a sub process which would call getchar() (and suspend) and
then main process could monitor the sub process for a signal to take
action. My multi-threading coding skills are a bit rusty, but it seems
like this would work.

Forking and monitoring other processes are at least as system-specific
as checking for pending keyboard input.

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[Morris Dovey]

Jeffrey Hiess wrote:

On the topic of the original post, I am hesitant to write platform
specific code to avoid suspending. Instead, I was pondering the idea
of forking a sub process which would call getchar() (and suspend) and
then main process could monitor the sub process for a signal to take
action. My multi-threading coding skills are a bit rusty, but it seems
like this would work.

Jeffrey...

It sounds like news:comp.unix.programmer might be a good place to
ask this question. If you have access to "Advanced Programming in
the UNIX Environment" by Richard Stevens, you might find it
helpful. You might find http://www.iedu.com/mrd/c/getch.c
(written with help from APUE to run under Linux) interesting.

Note that your code will (necesarily) be less portable than a
standard-compliant program that uses getchar() - the price for
being just a bit chummier with the operating system.

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West Des Moines, Iowa USA
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[Gordon Burditt]

>On the topic of the original post, I am hesitant to write platform

specific code to avoid suspending.
You have no choice. ANSI C does not provide non-blocking I/O.
Instead, I was pondering the idea
of forking ^^^^^^^
PLATFORM-SPECIFICa sub process ^^^^^^^^^^^
PLATFORM-SPECIFICwhich would call getchar() (and suspend) and
then main process could monitor ^^^^^^^
If this is anything but setting up a signal handler, this is PLATFORM-SPECIFICthe sub process ^^^^^^^^^^^
PLATFORM-SPECIFICfor a signal to take ^^^^^^^^^^^^
sending a signal to another process is PLATFORM-SPECIFIC.action. My multi-threading coding skills are a bit rusty, but it seems ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Multi-threading except for the skimpy support for signal handlers in C
is PLATFORM-SPECIFIC.
like this would work.

Gordon L. Burditt

[Richard Bos]

je***********@honeywell.com (Jeffrey Hiess) wrote:

Did I miss something? Which FAQ? Please expound. I'm posting from
Google Groups.

That is frequently an explanation, but never an excuse.

Richard

[Christopher Benson-Manica]

Jeffrey Hiess <je***********@honeywell.com> spoke thus:

Did I miss something? Which FAQ? Please expound. I'm posting from
Google Groups.

Since no one else seemed to be clear, yes, you did miss something -
the FAQ located at http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html.

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ataru(at)cyberspace.org | don't, I need to know. Flames welcome.

[Ian Bell]

Christopher Benson-Manica wrote:

Jeffrey Hiess <je***********@honeywell.com> spoke thus:

Did I miss something? Which FAQ? Please expound. I'm posting from
Google Groups.

Since no one else seemed to be clear, yes, you did miss something -
the FAQ located at http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html.

There seems to be no downloadable version of the full latest FAQ.

Ian

[Irrwahn Grausewitz]

Ian Bell <ia*@ruffrecordsDOTworldonline.co.uk> wrote:

Christopher Benson-Manica wrote:

Jeffrey Hiess <je***********@honeywell.com> spoke thus:

Did I miss something? Which FAQ? Please expound. I'm posting from
Google Groups.

Since no one else seemed to be clear, yes, you did miss something -
the FAQ located at http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html.

There seems to be no downloadable version of the full latest FAQ.

Follow the link on http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html to
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/versions.html and from there to
ftp://ftp.eskimo.com/u/s/scs/C-faq/faq.Z.

Or try: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/C-faq/faq/index.html (~280K).

HTH ;)

Regards
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