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From: acheng@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Need Non-Blocking Terminal Input Fu
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Date: Mon, 27-Jan-86 13:58:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 27 13:58:00 1986
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/* Written 12:27 pm  Jan 22, 1986 by cramer@kontron.UUCP in uiucdcs:net.unix-wizar */
/* ---------- "Need Non-Blocking Terminal Input Fu" ---------- */
Does anyone know of a way to do read from a terminal under Berkeley 4.2 UNIX
so that after a specified number of seconds control is returned to the
program if there is no response?  ...
/* End of text from uiucdcs:net.unix-wizar */

Try "select(2)".  It has a timeout feature.

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Albert Cheng
acheng@UIUC.ARPA	acheng@UIUC.CSNET	{ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!acheng
Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Illinois-Urbana,
Rm. 240, 1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, IL 61801

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