Non-blocking activateCDKEntry or an alternative

[Marius Gavrilescu]

Say I have a program which reads input from the user with a CDKENTRY
but which also wants to read commands from a socket.
Those commands update other CDK widgets

Unfortunately, activateCDKEntry(input, NULL) blocks until 
the user enters RET TAB or ESC. Therefore if I let the user write
commands, I cannot read commands from the server

1. Is there anything similar to select/poll/epoll which lets me
wait for a CDKENTRY and for a file descriptor simultaneously?

2. If not, can I somehow tell activateCDKEntry to time out and 
return NULL after some time?

3. If not, can I update and redraw a widget from a SIGIO handler
which interrupts activateCDKEntry?

4. If not, can I update and redraw a widget from a thread while
activateCDKEntry is running in another thread?

5. If not, can I make activateCDKEntry return NULL in the main thread
by running something in another thread?

6. If not, is there any other way to simultaneously wait
for input from a CDKENTRY and from a file descriptor?

-- 
Marius Gavrilescu
(main) Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. 
--Mark Twain

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