From: Kevin Ashley <k DOT ashley AT ulcc DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Getch() in UNIX
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 17:30:49 +0100
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Dan, Ho-Jin wrote:
> 
> #include <termio.h>
> #include <sys/ioctl.h>
> 
> int getch() {
>    struct termio o, n;
>    char c;
> 
>    ioctl(0, TCGETA, &o);
>    ioctl(0, TCGETA, &n);
....

A minor point, but one that helps portability - most systems that
support
the termio stuff indicate that the function-call interface is preferable
to the ioctl interface. Use tcgetattr, tcsetattr in preference to ioctl.
This has the obvious advantage that it is much easier to re-implement
a function like tcsetattr on another system that doesn't have termio
done
in the device driver than it is to hack ioctl to support extra
attributes.  

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