Author: Dieter Buerssner
Date: 15:39:58 08/30/04
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On August 30, 2004 at 15:39:45, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On August 30, 2004 at 14:40:25, Uri Blass wrote: > >>/* When using Standard C input functions, also check if there >>is anything in the buffer. After a call to such functions, >>the input waiting in the pipe will be copied to the buffer, >>and the call to PeekNamedPipe can indicate no input available. >>Setting stdin to unbuffered was not enough, IIRC */ >>//input_init(); >> if (stdin->_cnt > 0) >> return 1; >That will not work reliably. If you run with winboard/xboard long enough it is >guaranteed to hang for the reason I gave. PeekNamedPipe will not see input that >has already been read by the C library and tucked away in a library buffer. It seems to work very reliably for me. See the above comment in the code (I actually wrote that comment ...). Under Unix, setting stdin to non-buffered by the Standard C function setvbuf and using select seems to work reliably, too. I read all the input with the Standard C FILE * interface. Regards, Dieter
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