On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 01:44:19AM +0100, Cliff Hones wrote:
When select() is used to test for input availability on the standard
cygwin console in normal (cooked) mode, it indicates input is available
as soon as any key is pressed. However, a call to read(0,...)
will (correctly) block until a terminating RETURN is entered.
select() should only indicate input is available when a call
to read would *not* block - ie when a read call will immediately
return at least one character or an error such as EOF.
The behaviour of the following test case illustrates this. When run
in a console window typing a single key causes the program to wait
for the whole line. When run under mintty or on Linux the
select() calls will continue to return no input until RETURN is
entered.
Since, AFAIK, Windows has no way to do this, I don't see how it could be
done easily. You could, I guess, pull characters into a buffer until a
newline was found but that would be pretty error-prone and any use of
select() would potentially invalidate console i/o for subprocesses.
So, I don't see this changing anytime soon.