#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <assert.h>
int main ()
{
        int keyboard;
        int ret,i;
        char c;
        fd_set readfd;
        struct timeval timeout;
        keyboard = open("/dev/tty",O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK);
        assert(keyboard
 
>0);
        while(1)
        {
                timeout.tv_sec=5;
                timeout.tv_usec=0;
                FD_ZERO(&readfd);
                FD_SET(keyboard,&readfd);
                ret=select(keyboard+1,&readfd,NULL,NULL,&timeout);
                //select error when ret = -1  
 

                if (ret == -1)
                        perror("select error");
                //data coming when ret>0  
                else if (ret)
                {
                        if(FD_ISSET(keyboard,&readfd))
                        {
                                i=read(keyboard,&c,1
 
);
                                if('\n'==c)
                                        continue;
                                printf("the input is %c\n",c);
                                if ('q'==c)
                                        break;
                        }
                }
                //time out when ret = 0  
                else if (ret == 0)
                        printf("time out\n");
        }
}