How do I prevent holding when reading stdin?
I'm creating a program with glut that uses the terminal for input and using fscanf() is holding up the process. How can I check the stream before calling fscanf()?
Mr.UNOwen 0 Junior Poster
gerard4143 371 Nearly a Posting Maven
You could try googling non-blocking I/O.
L7Sqr 227 Practically a Master Poster
Using select is a viable approach on some systems. There are other input query mechanisms on other platforms. What system are you operating in?
Mr.UNOwen 0 Junior Poster
Found a solution:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/717572/c-nonblocking-io-on-linux
Earlier I was googling non-holding rather than non-blocking, which didn't give me that helpful of a result.
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