Re: ncurses and blocking?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 03:06:43AM +0200, Simon Richter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> 
> [Problem: curses app which should not do any blocking I/O]
> 
> > nodelay, etc:
> 
> > curs_inopts(3X)                                   curs_inopts(3X)
> 
> Hrm, I think my description of the problem was inadequate. I was thinking
> of the output side, where the refresh() call could be blocking while
> writing to the terminal. I understand that this will only seldom cause
> problems, but I'd like my application to continue running even if the user
> pressed ^S. The "trivial" solution would be a multithreaded app, but I'd
> like to avoid that for portability reasons.

If you put the terminal into raw mode, it prevents ^S from doing anything:
        raw();

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