Hello,

I want to code the wait for data in a C-Code. It is appreciated that you have any suggestion about it. Thanks in advance. Junye

for example, function getchar() or getch() waits for data from keyboard.

Hi Alexey,

Thank for your reply. I should give more details. My problem is that when a code A is running to wait for data from another code B. Furthermore, the data from the code B is cyclic to update. The code A is waiting until the data updated. Then the code A gets the data in.

Are those codes two different .exe??? If so, u can write a txt file from code B and read in code A.

Another option is to use an MPI implementation, allowing u even to parallelize those codes....

good luck...

The codes are two different.exe. The option one is not suitable for my case. Because the code B update a series of txt files cyclically, the code A read in each updated data. The key problem is the code A needs to know if the txt file has been updated. Then, the code A makes a decision if to read in the data. The option two seems too complex if there are some functions in C or fortran language like MPI 'waiting'. Anyway, thanks for your suggestion.

Code A need to read the directory where the text files are produced by Code B, save the time stamp of these text files, when these files are updated they will have a new time stamp So you need to have a good reference about your operating system and know which calls Code A has to make in order to get the directory listing, I do not have my C language book at hand right now, but I am positive you can do it using the C language, Good Luck

If using Unix/Linux, can't you do this sort of thing with pipes?

Or read from a file. If it is empty, pause/sleep for a fixed time then read again. Continue until you reach an end of data flag, process data then start over.