in reply to Non blocking read from the console

I don't get where the non blocking part is ...

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Re^2: Non blocking read from the console
by soonix (Chancellor) on Oct 18, 2024 at 20:39 UTC
    the ReadKey(-1) (and the underlying system call) is non-blocking. At least OP doesn't hog the CPU as in the SYNOPSIS of Term::ReadKey, but uses usleep during the active waiting…