Re: Non-blocking I/O

From: pinkfloydhomer_at_[hidden]
Date: 2001-03-06 03:54:02

--- In boost_at_y..., deansturtevant_at_m... wrote:
> > 
> That colleague was me. Did I really blame the C++ committee? I
should 
> really put primary blame on the C committee for not setting a 
> precedent. Anyway, in case anyone is interested, if you're using the 
> C stdin, of course Microsoft provides kbhit(). If you want to have a 
> kbhit() that works in Linux, check out the following site (which has 
> a GNU General Public License version):
> http://src.openresources.com/debian/src/comm/HTML/S/casio_2.2.orig%
> 20casio-2.2.orig%20boss.c.html#1182
> - Dean

Thanks, but it wouldn't solve my problem.
First of all, I want this to work on many different platforms, not
only Win32 and Linux.
Secondly, I want to be device independant in the sense that I don't
care if the stdin is tied to a keyboard or a pipe. It has to work with
a pipe as well.