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From: Michal Moskal <malekith@pld-linux.org>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] unbuffered input
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 18:40:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030821164024.GA18540@roke.freak> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030821161157.GH18587@alan-schm1p>

On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 12:11:57PM -0400, Alan Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been looking at this for about one hour, and I seem to get stuck: 
> how can I do unbuffered input in caml ? I want a program to block until 
> a char is entered. I tried input_char and Unix.read (without 
> and with Unix.select), to no avail. I do not know if it is caml, the 
> libc, or the terminal that is buffering.

Probably terminal. Under unix it's line-buffered by default.

> Any hint on how to do this ?

Unix.read + Unix.select + Unix.tcsetattr.

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-21 16:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-21 16:11 Alan Schmitt
2003-08-21 16:40 ` Michal Moskal [this message]
2003-08-21 16:47 ` art yerkes
2003-08-21 16:49 ` [Caml-list] unbuffered input: a solution Alan Schmitt

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