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select_example
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#define TIMEOUT 5 /* select timeout in seconds */
#define BUF_LEN 1024 /* read buffer in bytes */
int main (void) {
struct timeval tv;
fd_set readfds;
int ret;
/* Wait on stdin for input. */
FD_ZERO(&readfds);
FD_SET(STDIN_FILENO, &readfds);
/* Wait up to five seconds. */
tv.tv_sec = TIMEOUT;
tv.tv_usec = 0;
/* All right, now block! */
ret = select (STDIN_FILENO + 1, &readfds,
NULL,
NULL,
&tv);
if (ret ==1) {
perror ("select");
return 1;
} else if (!ret) {
printf ("%d seconds elapsed.\n", TIMEOUT);
return 0;
}
/*
* Is our file descriptor ready to read?
* (It must be, as it was the only fd that
* we provided and the call returned
* nonzero, but we will humor ourselves.)
*/
if (FD_ISSET(STDIN_FILENO, &readfds)) {
char buf[BUF_LEN+1];
int len;
/* guaranteed to not block */
len = read (STDIN_FILENO, buf, BUF_LEN);
if (len ==1) {
perror ("read");
return 1;
}
if (len) {
buf[len] = '\0';
printf ("read: %s\n", buf);
}
return 0;
}
fprintf (stderr, "This should not happen!\n");
return 1;
}
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