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From: Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@gmail.com>
To: Bastian Ruppert <ng@max01.eu>
Cc: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: line buffered stdin
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:06:26 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ea11fea31001110836q5afe9dcn1022bd7d80228abe@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B4B5173.20504@max01.eu>

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Bastian Ruppert <ng@max01.eu> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> under Linux stdin is line buffered, that means you can read one byte with
> following statement:
>
> read(0,&myvar,1);
>
> You get the byte after typing one or more chars AND return.
>
> But i need this function to return after every char entered in stdin.
>
> Is there a function that reads stdin without line buffering?
>
> Is it possible to disable the linebuffer or to reduce the buffersize to one?
First two links in google search.

http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/init.html
http://www.flipcode.com/archives/_kbhit_for_Linux.shtml
> Does this kind of manupilation have consequences for the hole system or just
> for
> the app
> doing this?
>
> Any Ideas are very welcome,
> thank you.
>
> Regards
> Bastian.
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-11 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-11 16:27 line buffered stdin Bastian Ruppert
2010-01-11 16:36 ` Manish Katiyar [this message]
2010-01-11 19:09   ` ern0
2010-01-11 20:51 ` Glynn Clements

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