>>>>> "Olaf" == Olaf Seibert <rhialto@mbfys.kun.nl> writes:

Olaf> I was compiling a program that basically did

Olaf> 	fd = open("/dev/tty", ...); FD_SET(fd, &fdset); err =
Olaf> select(fd+1, &fdset, NULL, NULL, &tv);

Olaf> and this select call did not return until the timeout had
Olaf> passed.  Typing input did not cause a return

Niklas Hallqvist <niklas@appli.se> wrote:
Niklas> I know nothing about the fdesc thingy, but I just wanted to ask if you
Niklas> are sure that you were not in canonical mode when you tried it the
Niklas> first time?  I fought this over just last week, when I realized stty
Niklas> -a showed me icanon set on the tty I used.
Niklas> 
Niklas> Forget this if you are not as stupid as I were...

Well, I was running in canonical mode, but since I typed a whole
line including a return that should not make a difference. What did
make a difference was (as I mentioned) removing fdesc; what also
worked was using fd 0 (stdin) instead.

FYI, the code was from sudo's tgetpass(), a getpass() clone with
timeout. I stripped that code down to make sure the problem wasn't
in any of the other fancy things there.

-Olaf.
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