From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-03-27T16:16:56+09:00
Subject: Re: input without blocking

On Mar 26, 2006, at 6:52 PM, yahn wrote:

> How do you do something like gets but without blocking?  All I want to
> do is try to see if anything was input and if it wasn't then just  
> go on
> running the rest of my code.

Use threads.

In one thread perform your IO.  In your other thread do whatever it  
is you'd like to do while waiting for IO.

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