About the stdin buffer

[nemax]

I`m stuck in a progranming with c in linux！

when we open a shell,a character picture will be presented!

But before the picture show we can also input some characters,and after the picture shows,the characters you have input will be presented again to tell you that you have input sth already.

how can I do this with c?

just like in other linux and I open a shell,I input some characters(here is "ls") before the PS1 environment viriable shows,and finally I get this:

ls nemax@nemax-laptop:~$ ls

the red ls is my input before the "nemax@nemax-laptop:~$" show,and the blue ls is handle by system right?the system move my input(the red ls) to the end.

How can i write a function like this to handle the red ls?

[xenopeek]

That is the default if you use stream functions like getc or gets. Type in terminal:

Code: Select all

man getc

To read more about these functions.

Basically, getc reads 1 character from the stdin stream. If you type characters before your program is ready to accept input, they get buffered in the stdin stream and you can read them later with functions like getc (or the other functions that work on streams). You can also using functions like fflush, to clear a stream, so there are no buffered characters. Useful if you want to ask the user to enter a password (you don't what mistaken press keys earlier to end up in the input for that).

[DrHu]

You might also want to check out string processing programs to see how they does it !
http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html#uh-0
http://www.tenouk.com/clabworksheet/cch ... tring2.pdf
--you can probably find your own samples/examples..