is it possible to force a thread to return from a call to a blocking function such as a blocking read from a stream ?
int x;
std::cin >> x;
for example…
is it possible to force a thread to return from a call to a
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is it possible to force a thread to return from a call to a blocking function such as a blocking read from a stream ?
int x;
std::cin >> x;
for example…
No, it’s not possible. If you want to find out whether there’s data to read, use the select() syscall – if you only read when there’s data waiting, you’ll never block