| RE: Asynchronous keyboard callbacks (was: [AD] Proposal for an input model) |
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> Presumably executing
> read() on the keyboard's file descriptor will block until
> there is some
> input available?
blocking reads are the standard way to do this, yes. either
that or select. select gives you the ability to timeout as well,
which i think can't be done with read. though in this case
there probably is no advantage to this.
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Vincent Penquerc'h
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