Receiving key press and key release events in Linux terminal applications?

Question

I would like to write a simple C program that will perform different actions based on both \"key down\" and \"key up\" events. This program will be run from inside rxvt.

Answer 1

I don't think ncurses will work. The link Basilevs provided talks about the "up arrow" key and the "down arrow" key, not a key press and release.