Re: getch always returns -1 after shell

[jon wackley]

Thanks Thomas,

Unfortunately the problem cannot be boiled down to something simple and the
minimal system has no debugger.

Thanks,
jonw

Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 09:25:05PM -0500, jon wackley wrote:
> > Hi Thomas,
> >
> > Yes I am using nodelay(stdscr, FALSE) to try to correct this problem. 
> > This seems to have no effect. I'm currently looking to determine if 
> > stdin is being closed or altered by the shell processing. I duped the 
> > stdio handles to /dev/null to see if this will change anything. If you 
> > have any suggestions further to this please feel free to let me know.
> >   
>
> well here's a very simple example which works - a simple example that
> doesn't would help focus:
>
> #include <curses.h>
>
> int main()
> {
> 	int ch;
>
> 	initscr();
> 	raw();
> 	noecho();
>
> 	while ((ch = getch()) != EOF) {
> 		if (ch == '!') {
> 			endwin();
> 			system("sh -i");
> 			refresh();
> 		} else if (ch == '\033') {
> 			break;
> 		} else
> 			addch(ch);
> 	}
> 	endwin();
> 	return 0;
> }