On Saturday 11 December 2004 02:14, Vinicius wrote: > how to read input from keyboard (through a console) by the standard > language C, please? I suppose an experienced Unix/Linux programmer has > the answer. Do you mean frpm stdin (which others assume)? Or from the actual terminal? Several programs do the latter, I think passwd, sudo and su all do so. Basically you need to open /dev/tty, but there is more to it than just that - eg what if there is no /dev/tty? Reading programs that do what you want is a good way to learn. -- Cheers John Summerfield tourist pics: http://environmental.disaster.cds.merseine.nu/
