Subj : Re: Any rust programmers?
To   : Apam
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Nov 09 2023 18:28:32

  Re: Re: Any rust programmers?
  By: Apam to Tenser on Fri Nov 10 2023 08:30 am

 > BY: tenser (21:1/101)
 >
 > |11t|09> |10I'm not sure what you mean with respect to redirection and|07
 > |11t|09> |10the blocking/buffering behavior of stdin.  Can you explain|07
 > |11t|09> |10what it is precisely that you're trying to do?  Generally,|07
 >
 > On linux, most bbs systems redirect stdin/stdout to the telnet socket. I'm
 > trying to remove line buffering so i can read characters one at a time, and
 > stop blocking so i can test for timeleft while waiting for input.

I'm don't know Rust, but this reference (https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/io/struct.BufReader.html) seems to imply you could instatiate BufReader::with_capacity(1, std::io::stdin);
to create an unbuffered stdin reader. I have no idea if that'll work. <shrug>
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