Read from stdin without blocking

[Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-learn]

The operating system does line buffering, so you'll need to turn 
that off. The function is tcssetattr() on Posix and 
SetConsoleMode on Windows.

My terminal.d does this in struct ctors and dtors:

https://github.com/adamdruppe/arsd/blob/master/terminal.d

example usage:
http://arsdnet.net/dcode/book/chapter_12/07/input.d

The RealTimeConsoleInput struct turns off buffering and has 
functions like getch() and kbhit() to fetch individual characters 
from it.

That's not quite the same as getting everything that's available, 
but might be useful to you.



Most efficient way I think though is to turn off buffering with 
the OS calls, then you can set stdin to be nonblocking and read 
chunks off it with ordinary read() or ReadFile calls.