C non-blocking keyboard input

Question

I\'m trying to write a program in C (on Linux) that loops until the user presses a key, but shouldn\'t require a keypress to continue each loop.

Is there a simple wa

Answer 1

There is no portable way to do this, but select() might be a good way. See http://c-faq.com/osdep/readavail.html for more possible solutions.