Non-blocking stdin reading in openFrameworks

ThreadedCin.cpp

#include "ThreadedCin.h"

#pragma mark - Lifecycle

ThreadedCin::ThreadedCin () {
    latest = "";
}

ThreadedCin::~ThreadedCin () {
    stopThread();
}

#pragma mark - Threads

void ThreadedCin::threadedFunction () {
    
    int cnt;
    
    while( isThreadRunning() && !feof( stdin ) ) {

        cnt = read( STDIN_FILENO, buffer, sizeof buffer );
        
        // Remove new line
        buffer[ std::strcspn( buffer, "\n" ) ] = '\0';
        
        ofLogNotice() << cnt;
        ofLogNotice() << buffer;
        
        lock();
        latest = string( buffer );
        unlock();
    }
}

string ThreadedCin::getLatest () {
    string result;
    lock();
    result = latest;
    unlock();
    return result;
}

void ThreadedCin::reset () {
    lock();
    latest = "";
    unlock();
}

ThreadedCin.h

#pragma once

#include "ofMain.h"

class ThreadedCin : public ofThread {
public:
    // # Lifecycle
    ThreadedCin ();
    virtual ~ThreadedCin ();
    
    // # Threads
    void threadedFunction();
    
    string getLatest();
    void reset();

private:
    char buffer[ 8192 ];
    string latest;
};

Hello,

I'm trying to understand how to integrate this snippet into openFramework code. I basically need to read STDIN and pass data to openFramework. Do I understand correctly that this code needs to be started in a thread and it should work this way ? Thanks!