Re: how to flush stdin buffer in linux

["beyond.hack" <beyond.hack@xxxxxxxxx>]

you may try with

__fpurge()

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 1:23 AM, Tobias Boege <tobias@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 08 Jan 2013, Niroj Pokhrel wrote:
> Hi all,
> I tried to use fflush(stdin) in gcc as I used to in other compilers. But It
> didn't clear my buffer so I am wondering how can I clear the stdin buffer
> in GCC.
> I tried using lseek but got -EPIPE (as tty devices doesn't support lseek
> operation).
> Thanx in advance.

If it's a tty, you may want to use tcflush(fd, TCIFLUSH);

Regards,
Tobi

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