Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!geaclib!rae
From: rae@geaclib.UUCP (Reid Ellis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: how does one do "cbreak" type code in C++?
Summary: do you somehow coerce an istream into a file descriptor?
Keywords: cbreak, file descriptor, FILE *
Message-ID: <3629@geaclib.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 89 08:22:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: geaclib.3629
Reply-To: rae@geaclib.UUCP (Reid Ellis)
Organization: T'nir Software
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Is there a "nice" method whereby one can get characters from cin in a
non-blocking manner?  I was looking at stream.h and was thinking along
the lines of extracting the FILE* out of the i/ostream, and then getting
a file descriptor out of that and setting it to be FNDELAY, but this seems
too obtuse.  Surely there must be a better way of doing this?

<insert obligatory inquiries about PD C++ compilers for XXX here>

Reid