How to clear the keyboard buffer?
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Solution 1
You must indicate which type of application : terminal (POSIX syscall, curses, or stdio API), Qt, Gtk…
If it is a terminal (syscall) you can use the select
syscall and verify if something is available on the standard input, and while it is true, read it.
It is more a programming question.
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