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Re: Behavior of getch() and EINTR


From: Thomas Dickey
Subject: Re: Behavior of getch() and EINTR
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 18:18:25 -0500
User-agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2)

On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 02:50:55PM -0600, Bryan Christ wrote:
> Thomas,
> 
> I'm introducing some asynchronous features to my terminal emulator.  In my
> sample program, I am using SIGIO and relying on the fact that getch() will
> return ERR with EINTR set.  I've read the portability notes at the end of
> the getch man pages and am not really concerned about how other
> implementations behave (although I would argue, ideally,  they _should_
> behave the same as ncurses).  Can I reasonably assume the current behavior
> will not change?

It probably won't change :-)

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