curses input with threads

[C. Porter Bassett]

I have a multi-threaded program whose interface is done with curses.  It
pretty much just runs on its own, and displays its progress on the
screen.  I want to add a pause function.  I tried creating a separate
thread that runs stdscr.getch() to catch the keyboard entries.  But when I
do that, the entire program seems to pause to wait on that
getch() function.  

Is there any way to get input without freezing the other threads?

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