Hi folks,

i want to practice a little C programming and want to write a key logger programm which transparently greps characters from stdin pass them to telnet /ssh and check the input strings for a given list of forbidden input...

Here is a littel starter

main()
{
int i;

while (1){
i = getc(stdin);
putc(i,stdout);
};

}


My problem is that stdin per default is buffered and it waits till it receives <enter> from the user.

I used

freopen
setvbuf

do close stdin and reopen it as a new stream which is unbuffered but with no success
-> stdin still waits until it receives enter from the user....

So i did a little research and found that behaviour and settings of stdin is system dependent and i need to change it on linux using ioctl

I tried:

main()
{
int n;
struct termios oldT, newT;
char c;

ioctl(0,TCGETS,&oldT); //get current mode

newT=oldT;
newT.c_lflag &= ~ECHO; // echo off
newT.c_lflag &= ~ICANON; //one char @ a time

ioctl(0,TCSETS,&newT); // set new terminal mode

while(1){
read(0,&c,1); //read 1 char @ a time from stdin
putc(c,stdout);
};

}

but with no success... ...the option ICANON according to a google usenet entrie should do the job but didn't

I am running a debian system with kernel 2.4.21 and openwall patch

Any Suggestions?

regards,

weeny