Date:	Wed, 25 Oct 1995 13:56:22 +0300
From:	"Alexander V. Lukyanov" <lav AT video DOT yars DOT free DOT net>
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: need something better than kbhit()

Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

> On 25 Oct 1995, Herbert Kremser wrote:
> 
> > How can you determine if something is available at stdin?
> > I rather need a nonblocking input function.
> > 
> > kbhit() doesn't work, since it checks the real keyboard, not the
> > (buffered) stdin descriptor.
> 
> DJGPP v2.0 implements select() which might be what you want.  It uses an 
> IOCTL call (Int 21h/AX=4406h) to check whether input is available, and
> augments this by looking at the buffer of the FILE structure.  If you 
> need this for DJGPP v1.12, you will have to change it a bit (because the 
> FILE structure is a bit different); in v2.0, just use select().

Is there 'poll' function in v2.0 ?

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