Re: ncurses getch SIGWINCH

From: DINH Viet Hoa (dinh.viet.hoa_at_free.fr)
Date: 01/27/05 

Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:12:07 +0100

Average Joe wrote :

> My program sits in a blocking ncurses getch() call. When I receive the
> signal SIGWINCH (screen resize), how do I inject a character into the
> stdin so that getch will wake up?
>
> I know I can use a non-blocking getch() call but it rails the CPU, and
> sleeping is inefficient.

use select() with a timeout of 0.1 sec (sufficient most of time for
user interface) before getch() 

-- 
DINH V. Hoa,
"Paraît-il que c'est ce que recherchent la majorité des djeunz. Il n'y a plus
aucun attrait pour les métiers scientifiques ni techniques. Ils veulent être
chanteur, acteur ou fonctionnaire. C'est désépérant..." -- Emmanuel Delahaye

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