Bogdan Taru wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I wanna make a shell (very simple - 4 commands only) and I want to
> avoid the old programming problem of reading a string instead of a
> character at a time (used for buffering overflow attacks). Could
> somebody point to me such a C function which reads only one character at
> a time, without buffering the whole line before? I tried using getch()
> from ncurses library, but realized it's not very useful in my program...
>
> Thanks & Have fun,
> bogdan
You might want to try getc().
--Shawn Craver
