Re: line buffered stdin

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Bastian Ruppert <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> under Linux stdin is line buffered, that means you can read one byte with
> following statement:
>
> read(0,&myvar,1);
>
> You get the byte after typing one or more chars AND return.
>
> But i need this function to return after every char entered in stdin.
>
> Is there a function that reads stdin without line buffering?
>
> Is it possible to disable the linebuffer or to reduce the buffersize to one?
First two links in google search.

http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/init.html
http://www.flipcode.com/archives/_kbhit_for_Linux.shtml
> Does this kind of manupilation have consequences for the hole system or just
> for
> the app
> doing this?
>
> Any Ideas are very welcome,
> thank you.
>
> Regards
> Bastian.
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