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Subject: Re: _kbhit & memory leak in select()
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On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 01:17:33PM -0500, Michiel De Hoon wrote:
>For one of my software projects, I need the _kbhit function to check the
>console for keyboard input. While this function is present in msvcrt.dll, it
>is missing from cygwin1.dll, so I started writing this function myself (I'm
>hoping to contribute it to Cygwin if it works well).

I really appreciate the sentiment of submitting code but _kbhit is not a
linux function (or <echo on>POSIX, POSIX, POSIX...</echo off>) so it
really isn't a candidate for inclusion in the Cygwin DLL.

cgf

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