You may want http://godoc/github.com/pkg/term/termios. It looks like it
supports Tcflush on UNIX, including Solaris:
https://github.com/pkg/term/blob/master/termios/termios_solaris.go#L63.

On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 9:45 AM gbarr <gmb...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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>
>> cv25519/ECF8B611205B447E091246AF959E3D6197190DD5
>>
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