how to flush stdin buffer in linux

[beyond.hack]

you may try with
__fpurge()



On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 1:23 AM, Tobias Boege <tobias at gambas-buch.de> 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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