Console question

[norume at aps.anl.gov (Eric Norum)]

Ian Caddy wrote:

> 
> Using fgetc, as soon as I had a timeout from termios, it was all over 
> and I got EOF returned from fgetc whenever I called it without even a 
> timeout.
> 
> This fgetc is in newlib and if it gets returned 0 characters from the 
> lower levels, it marks that it is at the end of the file.  After this 
> time, even if new characters come into termios, it still returns EOF 
> straight away, not even waiting for the timeout.
> 

You can use clearerr(FILE *stream) to reset the flag.

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