Re: Non-blocking I/O

From: jk_at_[hidden]
Date: 2001-03-06 06:58:36

--- In boost_at_y..., deansturtevant_at_m... wrote:
> 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

Keyboard is not the only source of non-blocking input; another one is
network (socket or another model), and there are many more - disk i/o
etc. There is also need in non-blocking output.