For BSD systems I think you need to use TIOCFLUSH instead of TCFLSH On Friday, May 3, 2019 at 1:28:36 PM UTC+1, Steve Mynott wrote: > > I've a terminal app where I read y/n confirm using fmt.Scanln and I'm > trying to flush the keyboard buffer before this. > > On linux (and probably other UNIX systems) I can use > > unix.Syscall(unix.SYS_IOCTL, 0, unix.TCFLSH, 0) > > but this isn't portable (specifically to macOS which it would be nice to > support) since on cross compiling I see "undefined: unix.TCFLSH" Maybe this > is some BSDism? > > Rossetta code suggests using a ncurses function from > https://github.com/rthornton128/goncurses but that seems sort of ugly? > > https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Keyboard_input/Flush_the_keyboard_buffer#Go > > Is there a simple way which works at least on UNIX and macOS? > > -- > Steve Mynott <steve...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > cv25519/ECF8B611205B447E091246AF959E3D6197190DD5 >
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