From: 7stud -- <dolgun@...>
Date: 2007-10-04T06:57:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Non-blocking 'gets' ?

Stephen Ware wrote:
> 
> Is there a way to perform a non-blocking gets or getc?  As in a method
> that reads a character from stdin if there is one in the buffer or
> returns nil otherwise?  I'm writing a multi-threaded application that
> communicates over the internet using sockets, but I want the person who
> runs the script on the host machine to be able to enter commands via
> stdin.  The 'gets' command hangs all my threads until it returns.
> 

It doesn't sound like you are writing a multi-threaded application if 
gets hangs all your threads.  The whole point of threads is to execute 
other blocks of code while there is idle time in a given block of code.

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