read vs select on mouse events in console

Thomas Wolff towo@towo.net
Thu Dec 22 14:55:01 GMT 2022


When I added mouse notification support to the console long ago, I 
deliberately introduced a function mouse_aware() which was common 
between the console version of function read() and the console branch of 
function select(), in order to make sure by design that inconsistencies 
between them could never occur.
Now I noticed that by some change, mouse_aware() is not used anymore in 
select() code.
This means that it could happen that either a mouse event would be 
indicated by select() but then not be delivered by read(), so read() 
could stall,
or (possibly, not sure) the other way round, a mouse event available for 
delivery would not be recognized by select().
The attached test case is a rough demonstration of the issue. It uses 
mouse mode DECSET 1000 which has a limited range of mouse coordinates.
Run it in a maximized console, click into the upper left area, then 
further apart toward lower right, and eventually the program will stall 
until another key is pressed.
Thomas
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#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <termios.h>
#include <stdio.h>

#include <sys/select.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <signal.h>

struct termios saved_tattr;

void
restore_tattr (void)
{
  if (isatty (STDIN_FILENO))
    tcsetattr (STDIN_FILENO, TCSANOW, &saved_tattr);
}

int
ready_select ()
{
  struct timeval timeoutstru;
  fd_set readfds;
  int nfds;
  static int rv = 0;

  timeoutstru.tv_sec = 0;
  timeoutstru.tv_usec = 800000;

  FD_ZERO (& readfds);
  FD_SET (STDIN_FILENO, & readfds);
  nfds = select (STDIN_FILENO + 1, & readfds, 0, 0, & timeoutstru);
  printf ("(%d)", nfds);
  fflush (stdout);
  return nfds;
}

int
main (void)
{
  if (isatty (STDIN_FILENO)) {
    struct termios tattr;
    tcgetattr (STDIN_FILENO, &saved_tattr);
    tattr = saved_tattr;
/*
*/
    tattr.c_iflag &= ~(IGNBRK|BRKINT|PARMRK|ISTRIP|INLCR|IGNCR|ICRNL|IXON);
    tattr.c_oflag &= ~OPOST;
    tattr.c_cflag &= ~(CSIZE|PARENB);
    tattr.c_cflag |= CS8;
    tattr.c_lflag &= ~(ECHO|ECHONL|ICANON|ISIG|IEXTEN);
    /* use miminal change for test case: */
    tattr.c_lflag &= ~(ICANON);
    tcsetattr (STDIN_FILENO, TCSAFLUSH, &tattr);
    atexit (restore_tattr);
  }
  setbuf (stdout, 0);

//  printf ("\033[?1000h\033[?1006h\033[?1004h");
  printf ("\033[?1000h\033[?1004h");
  while (1) {
    unsigned char c;
    int res;

    while (! ready_select ()) {
    }

    res = read (STDIN_FILENO, & c, 1);
    if (c == '') {
      break;
    }
    switch (c & 0xFF) {
      case 0x00 ... 0x1f:  putchar ('^'); putchar (c + 0x40);
                           if (c == '\r') printf ("\r\n");
                           break;
      case 0x7f: putchar ('^'); putchar ('?'); break;
      case 0x80 ... 0xFF: printf ("\\x%2X", c); break;
      default: putchar (c);
    }
    fflush (stdout);
  }
  printf ("\033[?1000l\033[?1004l\r\nbye\r\n");
  return 0;
}


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