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Top Forums Programming pause? where art thou? Post 302073524 by Corona688 on Monday 15th of May 2006 10:41:57 AM

05-15-2006

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Quote:

Originally Posted by jim mcnamara

Although fgetc() seems like a choice....

Not unless you specifically set stdin to unbuffered...

How about:

Code:

void pause()
{
  system("read -n 1 -p \"Press Any Key To Continue\" < /dev/tty");
  printf("\b \n");
  fflush(stdout);
}

Granted, launching a whole new process isn't the most efficient way to do this, but you never cared about that before, so if you're looking for a quick and simple solution this will work. It will wait for one and only one keyboard hit, unlike jim's similar solution, which waits for the enter key.

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stderr

FD(4)							   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						     FD(4)

NAME

     fd, stdin, stdout, stderr -- file descriptor files

DESCRIPTION

     The files /dev/fd/0 through /dev/fd/# refer to file descriptors which can be accessed through the file system.  If the file descriptor is
     open and the mode the file is being opened with is a subset of the mode of the existing descriptor, the call:

	   fd = open("/dev/fd/0", mode);

     and the call:

	   fd = fcntl(0, F_DUPFD, 0);

     are equivalent.

     Opening the files /dev/stdin, /dev/stdout and /dev/stderr is equivalent to the following calls:

	   fd = fcntl(STDIN_FILENO,  F_DUPFD, 0);
	   fd = fcntl(STDOUT_FILENO, F_DUPFD, 0);
	   fd = fcntl(STDERR_FILENO, F_DUPFD, 0);

     Flags to the open(2) call other than O_RDONLY, O_WRONLY and O_RDWR are ignored.

IMPLEMENTATION NOTES

     By default, /dev/fd is provided by devfs(5), which provides nodes for the first three file descriptors.  Some sites may require nodes for
     additional file descriptors; these can be made available by mounting fdescfs(5) on /dev/fd.

FILES

     /dev/fd/#
     /dev/stdin
     /dev/stdout
     /dev/stderr

SEE ALSO

     tty(4), devfs(5), fdescfs(5)

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