From: Melzzzzz@nospicedham.zzzzz.com   
      
   On 2017-11-28, Richmond  wrote:   
   > I am trying to read a key from the keyboard. I have switched off   
   > canonical mode so it doesn't wait for the return key. But it does not   
   > seem to pick up the key in AX.   
   >   
   > GCHAR:  push rax   
   >         push rbx   
   >         push rcx   
   >         push rdx   
   >         mov rsi, charbuffer    ; buffer = address to store the bytes read   
   >         mov rcx,rsi   
   >         mov rdx, 0x4        ; number of bytes to read   
   >                            (setting this to 1 makes no difference)   
   >         mov rax, 0x3        ; number for sys_read   
   >         mov rbx, 0x2        ; From stdin   
   stdin is 0 not 2   
      
      
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