Win32 - read from stdin with timeout

Question

I\'m trying to do something which I think should be simple: do a blocking read from standard input, but timing out after a specified interval if no data is available.

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Answer 1

This should do it:

int main()
{
    static HANDLE stdinHandle;
    // Get the IO handles
    // getc(stdin);
    stdinHandle = GetStdHandle(STD_INPUT_HANDLE);

    while( 1 )
    {
        switch( WaitForSingleObject( stdinHandle, 1000 ) )
        {
        case( WAIT_TIMEOUT ):
            cerr << "timeout" << endl;
            break; // return from this function to allow thread to terminate
        case( WAIT_OBJECT_0 ):
            if( _kbhit() ) // _kbhit() always returns immediately
            {
                int i = _getch();
                cerr << "key: " << i << endl;
            }
            else // some sort of other events , we need to clear it from the queue
            {
                // clear events
                INPUT_RECORD r[512];
                DWORD read;
                ReadConsoleInput( stdinHandle, r, 512, &read );
                cerr << "mouse event" << endl;
            }
            break;
        case( WAIT_FAILED ):
            cerr << "WAIT_FAILED" << endl;
            break;
        case( WAIT_ABANDONED ): 
            cerr << "WAIT_ABANDONED" << endl;
            break;
        default:
            cerr << "Someting's unexpected was returned.";
        }
    }

    return 0;
}