Unbuffered char reads from App from stdin (keyboard)

[Rick Hunnicutt]

Just do a read on STD_IN (fd of 0) of one char...

#define STD_IN 0
char ch;

    read(STD_IN, &ch, 1)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org
> [mailto:owner-linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org]On Behalf Of Steven
> Vacca
> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 10:39 AM
> To: LinuxEmbeddedMailList (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: Unbuffered char reads from App from stdin (keyboard)
>
>
>
> Mark,
>
> Using some of your unbuf_getch() code inside a while (1)
> loop, fgetc() still blocks until a '\n', then, with each iteration
> of the loop, 1 char is returned from the fgetc() until all chars are
> returned, then fgetc() blocks again.
>
> Is there a way to get chars without blocking and waiting for
> the '\n'?
>
> Thanks,
>
> ShutEyeThinkin
>
>
>
>
>
> //************************************************************
> *************
> ***********
> Mark's code:
>
> Hi,
>
> I found some examples on groups.google.com that I modified
> to suite my needs.  Try something like these:
>
> int
> unbuf_getch()
> {
>     FILE    *input;
>     int      selected;
>     struct termios initial_settings;
>     struct termios new_settings;
>
>     if (!isatty(fileno(stdout))) {
>         fprintf(stderr,"You are not a terminal, OK.\n");
>     }
>
>     input = fopen("/dev/tty", "r");
>     if(!input) {
>         fprintf(stderr, "Unable to open /dev/tty\n");
>         exit(1);
>     }
>
>     tcgetattr(fileno(input),&initial_settings);
>     new_settings = initial_settings;
>     new_settings.c_lflag &= ~ICANON;
>     new_settings.c_lflag &= ~ECHO;
>     new_settings.c_cc[VMIN] = 1;
>     new_settings.c_cc[VTIME] = 0;
>     new_settings.c_lflag &= ~ISIG;
>     if(tcsetattr(fileno(input), TCSANOW, &new_settings) != 0) {
>         fprintf(stderr,"could not set attributes\n");
>     }
>     selected = fgetc(input);
>     tcsetattr(fileno(input),TCSANOW,&initial_settings);
>
>     fclose(input);
>     return selected;
> }
>
> int
> kbhit()
> {
>    int ret, c;
>    fd_set read_file_descr;
>    struct timeval timeout;
>    int debug_flag;
>
>    /* this could be a global */
>    debug_flag = 0;
>
>    /* this macro initializes the file descriptor
> read_file_descr to to be
> the empty set */
>    FD_ZERO(&read_file_descr);
>
>    /* this macro adds fileno(stdin) to the file descriptor
> read_file_descr
> */
>    FD_SET(fileno(stdin), &read_file_descr);
>
>    timeout.tv_sec = 0;
>    timeout.tv_usec = 100;
>    /* int FD_SETSIZE  macro is maximum number of
> filedescriptors that fd_set
> can hold */
>    /* function select waits for specified filedescr. to have
> a signal */
>    /* last argument struct timeval *timeout */
>    ret = select(1, &read_file_descr, NULL, NULL, &timeout);
>    switch( ret ) /* 0 is timeout, -1 error (in errno), 1 = data */
>    {
>       case -1:
>          if( debug_flag )
>             fprintf(stdout, "select returned -1 error\n");
>          ret = 0;
>          break;
>       case 0:
>          if( debug_flag )
>             fprintf(stdout, "select returned 0 timeout\n");
>          ret = 0;
>          break;
>       case 1:
>          if( debug_flag )
>             fprintf(stdout, "SELECT returned=%d input\n", ret);
>          ret = 1;
>          break;
>       default:
>          if( debug_flag )
>             fprintf(stdout, "select returned=%d invalid\n", ret);
>          break;
>    }
>
>    /* test if user has data.  this'll eat the first non-CR
> keys pressed */
>    if( FD_ISSET(fileno(stdin), &read_file_descr) )
>    {
>       c = getc(stdin);
>       if( debug_flag )
>          fprintf(stdout, "USER KEY=%d\n", c);
>       FD_CLR(fileno(stdin), &read_file_descr);
>    }
>
>    return ret;
> }
>
> Mark
> --
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>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steven Vacca [mailto:svacca at valcom.com]
> > Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 10:10 AM
> > To: LinuxEmbeddedMailList (E-mail)
> > Subject: Unbuffered char reads from App from stdin (keyboard)
> >
> >
> >
> > App and Linux kernel 2.2.13 running on mpc860T.
> >
> > I would like to know the best way, from inside my GNU C App,
> > to sense if there's a keyboard key pressed.  Something
> > similar to kbhit() in Microsoft C.  I would like to have a
> particular
> > thread execute a loop continuously and only when a key
> > is present, do a getc() or getchar(), or gets(), and the like.
> >
> > What is the best way to accomplish this?
> > Is there a way to make stdin unbuffered?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > ShutEyeThinkin
> >
> >
>


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