Ioctl Requests termio(7I)
NAME
termio - general terminal interface
SYNOPSIS
#include
ioctl(int fildes, int request, struct termio *arg);
ioctl(int fildes, int request, int arg);#include
ioctl(int fildes, int request, struct termios *arg);
DESCRIPTION
This release supports a general interface for asynchronouscommunications ports that is hardware-independent. The user
interface to this functionality is using function calls (thepreferred interface) described in termios(3C) or ioctl com-
mands described in this section. This section also discusses the common features of the terminal subsystem which are relevant with both user interfaces.When a terminal file is opened, it normally causes the pro-
cess to wait until a connection is established. In practice, user programs seldom open terminal files; they are opened by the system and become a user's standard input, output, and error files. The first terminal file opened by the session leader that is not already associated with a session becomes the controlling terminal for that session. The controlling terminal plays a special role in handling quit and interrupt signals, as discussed below. The controlling terminal is inherited by a child process during a fork(2). A process canbreak this association by changing its session using set-
sid() (see setsid(2)). A terminal associated with one of these files ordinarilyoperates in full-duplex mode. Characters may be typed at any
time, even while output is occurring, and are only lost when the character input buffers of the system become completely full, which is rare. For example, the number of charactersin the line discipline buffer may exceed {MAX_CANON} and
IMAXBEL (see below) is not set, or the user may accumulate {MAX_INPUT} number of input characters that have not yet been
read by some program. When the input limit is reached, all the characters saved in the buffer up to that point are thrown away without notice.SunOS 5.11 Last change: 13 Apr 2010 1
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Session Management (Job Control) A control terminal will distinguish one of the processgroups in the session associated with it to be the fore-
ground process group. All other process groups in the ses-
sion are designated as background process groups. This fore-
ground process group plays a special role in handlingsignal-generating input characters, as discussed below. By
default, when a controlling terminal is allocated, the con-
trolling process's process group is assigned as foreground process group.Background process groups in the controlling process's ses-
sion are subject to a job control line discipline when they attempt to access their controlling terminal. Process groups can be sent signals that will cause them to stop, unless they have made other arrangements. An exception is made for members of orphaned process groups. An orphaned process group is one where the process group (see getpgid(2)) has no members with a parent in a different process group but sharing the same controlling terminal. When a member of an orphaned process group attempts to access its controlling terminal, EIO is returned because there would be no way to restart the process if it were stopped on one of these signals. If a member of a background process group attempts to read its controlling terminal, its process group will be sent a SIGTTIN signal, which will normally cause the members of that process group to stop. If, however, the process is ignoring or holding SIGTTIN, or is a member of an orphaned process group, the read will fail with errno set to EIO, and no signal is sent. If a member of a background process group attempts to write its controlling terminal and the TOSTOP bit is set in thec_lflag field, its process group is sent a SIGTTOU signal,
which will normally cause the members of that process group to stop. If, however, the process is ignoring or holding SIGTTOU, the write will succeed. If the process is not ignoring or holding SIGTTOU and is a member of an orphaned process group, the write will fail with errno set to EIO, and no signal will be sent. If TOSTOP is set and a member of a background process group attempts to ioctl its controlling terminal, and that ioctl will modify terminal parameters (for example, TCSETA,SunOS 5.11 Last change: 13 Apr 2010 2
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TCSETAW, TCSETAF, or TIOCSPGRP), its process group will be sent a SIGTTOU signal, which will normally cause the members of that process group to stop. If, however, the process is ignoring or holding SIGTTOU, the ioctl will succeed. If the process is not ignoring or holding SIGTTOU and is a member of an orphaned process group, the write will fail with errno set to EIO, and no signal will be sent. Canonical Mode Input Processing Normally, terminal input is processed in units of lines. A line is delimited by a newline (ASCII LF) character, anend-of-file (ASCII EOT) character, or an end-of-line charac-
ter. This means that a program attempting to read will block until an entire line has been typed. Also, no matter how many characters are requested in the read call, at most one line will be returned. It is not necessary, however, to read a whole line at once; any number of characters may be requested in a read, even one, without losing information. During input, erase and kill processing is normally done. The ERASE character (by default, the character DEL) erasesthe last character typed. The WERASE character (the charac-
ter Control-w) erases the last "word" typed in the current
input line (but not any preceding spaces or tabs). A "word"is defined as a sequence of non-blank characters, with tabs
counted as blanks. Neither ERASE nor WERASE will erase beyond the beginning of the line. The KILL character (by default, the character NAK) kills (deletes) the entire input line, and optionally outputs a newline character. All these characters operate on a key stroke basis, independent of any backspacing or tabbing that may have been done. The REPRINTcharacter (the character Control-r) prints a newline fol-
lowed by all characters that have not been read. Reprinting also occurs automatically if characters that would normally be erased from the screen are fouled by program output. The characters are reprinted as if they were being echoed; consequencely, if ECHO is not set, they are not printed. The ERASE and KILL characters may be entered literally by preceding them with the escape character. In this case, the escape character is not read. The erase and kill characters may be changed.Non-canonical Mode Input Processing
In non-canonical mode input processing, input characters are
not assembled into lines, and erase and kill processing does not occur. The MIN and TIME values are used to determine how to process the characters received.SunOS 5.11 Last change: 13 Apr 2010 3
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MIN represents the minimum number of characters that should be received when the read is satisfied (that is, when the characters are returned to the user). TIME is a timer of0.10-second granularity that is used to timeout bursty and
short-term data transmissions. The four possible values for
MIN and TIME and their interactions are described below. Case A: MIN > 0, TIME > 0 In this case, TIME serves as an intercharacter timer and isactivated after the first char-
acter is received. Since it is an intercharacter timer, it is reset after a character is received. The interactionbetween MIN and TIME is as fol-
lows: as soon as one character is received, the intercharactertimer is started. If MIN char-
acters are received before the intercharacter timer expires (note that the timer is resetupon receipt of each charac-
ter), the read is satisfied. If the timer expires before MIN characters are received, the characters received to that point are returned to the user. Note that if TIME expires, at least one character will be returned because the timer would not have been enabled unless a character was received. In this case (MIN > 0, TIME > 0), the read sleepsuntil the MIN and TIME mechan-
isms are activated by the receipt of the first character. If the number of characters read is less than the number of characters available, the timeris not reactivated and the sub-
sequent read is satisfied immediately. Case B: MIN > 0, TIME = 0 In this case, since the value of TIME is zero, the timer plays no role and only MIN is significant. A pending read isnot satisfied until MIN charac-
ters are received (the pending read sleeps until MINSunOS 5.11 Last change: 13 Apr 2010 4
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characters are received). A program that uses this case toread record based terminal I/O may block indefinitely in the read operation. Case C: MIN = 0, TIME > 0 In this case, since MIN = 0, TIME no longer represents an intercharacter timer: it now serves as a read timer that is activated as soon as a read is done. A read is satisfied as soon as a single character is received or the read timer expires. Note that, in this case, if the timer expires, no character is returned. If the timer does not expire, the only way the read can be satisfied is if a character is received. In this case, the read will not block indefinitely waiting for a character; if no character is received within TIME *.10
seconds after the read is ini-
tiated, the read returns with zero characters.Case D: MIN = 0, TIME = 0 In this case, return is immedi-
ate. The minimum of either the number of characters requested or the number of characters currently available is returnedwithout waiting for more char-
acters to be input. Comparing Different Cases of MIN, TIME Interaction Some points to note about MIN and TIME : o In the following explanations, note that the interactions of MIN and TIME are not symmetric. For example, when MIN > 0 and TIME = 0, TIME has no effect. However, in the opposite case, where MIN = 0 and TIME > 0, both MIN and TIME play a role in that MIN is satisfied with the receipt of a single character. o Also note that in case A (MIN > 0, TIME > 0), TIME represents an intercharacter timer, whereas inSunOS 5.11 Last change: 13 Apr 2010 5
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case C ( MIN = 0, TIME > 0), TIME represents a read timer.These two points highlight the dual purpose of the MIN/TIME feature. Cases A and B, where MIN > 0, exist to handle burst mode activity (for example, file transfer programs),
where a program would like to process at least MIN charac-
ters at a time. In case A, the intercharacter timer is activated by a user as a safety measure; in case B, the timer is turned off. Cases C and D exist to handle single character, timedtransfers. These cases are readily adaptable to screen-based
applications that need to know if a character is present in the input queue before refreshing the screen. In case C, the read is timed, whereas in case D, it is not. Another important note is that MIN is always just a minimum.It does not denote a record length. For example, if a pro-
gram does a read of 20 bytes, MIN is 10, and 25 characters are present, then 20 characters will be returned to the user. Writing CharactersWhen one or more characters are written, they are transmit-
ted to the terminal as soon as previously written characters have finished typing. Input characters are echoed as they are typed if echoing has been enabled. If a process produces characters more rapidly than they can be typed, it will be suspended when its output queue exceeds some limit. When the queue is drained down to some threshold, the program is resumed. Special Characters Certain characters have special functions on input. These functions and their default character values are summarized as follows:INTR (Control-c or ASCII ETX) generates a SIGINT sig-
nal. SIGINT is sent to all foreground processesassociated with the controlling terminal. Nor-
mally, each such process is forced to terminate, but arrangements may be made either to ignore the signal or to receive a trap to an agreed upon location. (See signal.h(3HEAD)).QUIT (Control-| or ASCII FS) generates a SIGQUIT sig-
nal. Its treatment is identical to the interruptSunOS 5.11 Last change: 13 Apr 2010 6
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signal except that, unless a receiving process has made other arrangements, it will not only be terminated but a core image file (called core) will be created in the current working directory. ERASE (DEL) erases the preceding character. It does not erase beyond the start of a line, as delimited by a NL, EOF, EOL, or EOL2 character.WERASE (Control-w or ASCII ETX) erases the preceding
"word". It does not erase beyond the start of a line, as delimited by a NL, EOF, EOL, or EOL2 character.KILL (Control-u or ASCII NAK) deletes the entire line,
as delimited by a NL, EOF, EOL, or EOL2 charac-
ter.REPRINT (Control-r or ASCII DC2) reprints all characters,
preceded by a newline, that have not been read.EOF (Control-d or ASCII EOT) may be used to generate
an end-of-file from a terminal. When received,
all the characters waiting to be read are immedi-
ately passed to the program, without waiting for a newline, and the EOF is discarded. Thus, if no characters are waiting (that is, the EOF occurred at the beginning of a line) zero characters arepassed back, which is the standard end-of-file
indication. Unless escaped, the EOF character isnot echoed. Because EOT is the default EOF char-
acter, this prevents terminals that respond to EOT from hanging up.NL (ASCII LF) is the normal line delimiter. It can-
not be changed or escaped. EOL (ASCII NULL) is an additional line delimiter, like NL . It is not normally used. EOL2 is another additional line delimiter.SunOS 5.11 Last change: 13 Apr 2010 7
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SWTCH (Control-z or ASCII EM) Header file symbols
related to this special character are present for compatibility purposes only and the kernel takes no special action on matching SWTCH (except to discard the character).SUSP (Control-z or ASCII SUB) generates a SIGTSTP
signal. SIGTSTP stops all processes in the fore-
ground process group for that terminal.DSUSP (Control-y or ASCII EM). It generates a SIGTSTP
signal as SUSP does, but the signal is sent when a process in the foreground process group attempts to read the DSUSP character, rather than when it is typed.STOP (Control-s or ASCII DC3) can be used to suspend
output temporarily. It is useful with CRT termi-
nals to prevent output from disappearing before it can be read. While output is suspended, STOP characters are ignored and not read.START (Control-q or ASCII DC1) is used to resume out-
put. Output has been suspended by a STOP charac-
ter. While output is not suspended, START char-
acters are ignored and not read.DISCARD (Control-o or ASCII SI) causes subsequent output
to be discarded. Output is discarded until another DISCARD character is typed, more inputarrives, or the condition is cleared by a pro-
gram.LNEXT (Control-v or ASCII SYN) causes the special mean-
ing of the next character to be ignored. This works for all the special characters mentioned above. It allows characters to be input that would otherwise be interpreted by the system (for example KILL, QUIT). The character values for INTR, QUIT, ERASE, WERASE, KILL, REPRINT, EOF,EOL, EOL2, SWTCH, SUSP, DSUSP, STOP, START, DIS-
CARD, and LNEXT may be changed to suit individualtastes. If the value of a special control charac-
ter is _POSIX_VDISABLE (0), the function of that
special control character is disabled. The ERASE, KILL, and EOF characters may be escaped by aSunOS 5.11 Last change: 13 Apr 2010 8
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preceding backslash (\) character, in which case no special function is done. Any of the specialcharacters may be preceded by the LNEXT charac-
ter, in which case no special function is done. Modem Disconnect When a modem disconnect is detected, a SIGHUP signal is sent to the terminal's controlling process. Unless other arrangements have been made, these signals cause the processto terminate. If SIGHUP is ignored or caught, any subse-
quent read returns with an end-of-file indication until the
terminal is closed. If the controlling process is not in the foreground process group of the terminal, a SIGTSTP is sent to the terminal's foreground process group. Unless other arrangements have been made, these signals cause the processes to stop. Processes in background process groups that attempt to access the controlling terminal after modem disconnect while the terminal is still allocated to the session will receive appropriate SIGTTOU and SIGTTIN signals. Unless other arrangements have been made, this signal causes the processes to stop. The controlling terminal will remain in this state until it is reinitialized with a successful open by the controlling process, or deallocated by the controlling process. Terminal Parameters The parameters that control the behavior of devices andmodules providing the termios interface are specified by
the termios structure defined by termios.h. Several
ioctl(2) system calls that fetch or change these parameters use this structure that contains the following members:tcflag_t c_iflag; /* input modes */
tcflag_t c_oflag; /* output modes */
tcflag_t c_cflag; /* control modes */
tcflag_t c_lflag; /* local modes */
cc_t c_cc[NCCS]; /* control chars */
The special control characters are defined by the arrayc_cc. The symbolic name NCCS is the size of the Control-
character array and is also defined by
relative positions, subscript names, and typical default. The SunOS 5.11 Last change: 13 Apr 2010 9
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values for each function are as follows:SunOS 5.11 Last change: 13 Apr 2010 10
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__________________________________________________________________
| Relative Position | Subscript Name | Typical Default Value||____________________|____________________|_______________________|
| 0 | VINTR | ETX ||____________________|____________________|_______________________|
| 1 | VQUIT | FS ||____________________|____________________|_______________________|
| 2 | VERASE | DEL ||____________________|____________________|_______________________|
| 3 | VKILL | NAK ||____________________|____________________|_______________________|
| 4 | VEOF | EOT ||____________________|____________________|_______________________|
| 5 | VEOL | NUL ||____________________|____________________|_______________________|
| 6 | VEOL2 | NUL ||____________________|____________________|_______________________|
| 7 | VWSTCH | NUL ||____________________|____________________|_______________________|
| 8 | VSTART | NUL ||____________________|____________________|_______________________|
| 9 | VSTOP | DC3 ||____________________|____________________|_______________________|
| 10 | VSUSP | SUB ||____________________|____________________|_______________________|
| 11 | VDSUSP | EM ||____________________|____________________|_______________________|
| 12 | VREPRINT | DC2 ||____________________|____________________|_______________________|
| 13 | VDISCARD | SI ||____________________|____________________|_______________________|
| 14 | VWERASE | ETB ||____________________|____________________|_______________________|
| 15 | VLNEXT | SYN ||____________________|____________________|_______________________|
| 16-19 | Reserved | |
|____________________|____________________|_______________________|
Input ModesThe c_iflag field describes the basic terminal input con-
trol: IGNBRK Ignore break condition. BRKINT Signal interrupt on break. IGNPAR Ignore characters with parity errors.SunOS 5.11 Last change: 13 Apr 2010 11
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PARMRK Mark parity errors. INPCK Enable input parity check. ISTRIP Strip character. INLCR Map NL to CR on input. IGNCR Ignore CR. ICRNL Map CR to NL on input.IUCLC Map upper-case to lower-case on input.
IXON Enable start/stop output control. IXANY Enable any character to restart output. IXOFF Enable start/stop input control. IMAXBEL Echo BEL on input line too long. If IGNBRK is set, a break condition (a character framing error with data all zeros) detected on input is ignored, that is, not put on the input queue and therefore not read by any process. If IGNBRK is not set and BRKINT is set, the break condition shall flush the input and output queues and if the terminal is the controlling terminal of a foreground process group, the break condition generates a single SIGINT signal to that foreground process group. If neither IGNBRK nor BRKINT is set, a break condition is read as a single '\0' (ASCII NULL) character, or if PARMRK is set, as '\377', '\0', c, where '\377' is a single character with value 377 octal (0xff hex, 255 decimal), '\0' is a single character with value 0, and c is the errored character received. If IGNPAR is set, a byte with framing or parity errors (other than break) is ignored.SunOS 5.11 Last change: 13 Apr 2010 12
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If PARMRK is set, and IGNPAR is not set, a byte with a fram-
ing or parity error (other than break) is given to theapplication as the three-character sequence: '\377', '\0',
c, where '\377' is a single character with value 377 octal (0xff hex, 255 decimal), '\0' is a single character with value 0, and c is the errored character received. To avoidambiguity in this case, if ISTRIP is not set, a valid char-
acter of '\377' is given to the application as `\377.' If neither IGNPAR nor PARMRK is set, a framing or parity error (other than break) is given to the application as a single '\0' (ASCII NULL) character. If INPCK is set, input parity checking is enabled. If INPCK is not set, input parity checking is disabled. This allows output parity generation without input parity errors. Note that whether input parity checking is enabled or disabled isindependent of whether parity detection is enabled or dis-
abled. If parity detection is enabled but input parity checking is disabled, the hardware to which the terminal is connected will recognize the parity bit, but the terminal special file will not check whether this is set correctly or not. If ISTRIP is set, valid input characters are first stripped to seven bits, otherwise all eight bits are processed. If INLCR is set, a received NL character is translated into a CR character. If IGNCR is set, a received CR character is ignored (not read). Otherwise, if ICRNL is set, a received CR character is translated into a NL character. If IUCLC is set, a received upper case, alphabetic character is translated into the corresponding lower case character. If IXON is set, start/stop output control is enabled. A received STOP character suspends output and a received START character restarts output. The STOP and START characters will not be read, but will merely perform flow control functions. If IXANY is set, any input character restarts output that has been suspended. If IXOFF is set, the system transmits a STOP character when the input queue is nearly full, and a START character when enough input has been read so that the input queue is nearly empty again.SunOS 5.11 Last change: 13 Apr 2010 13
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If IMAXBEL is set, the ASCII BEL character is echoed if the input stream overflows. Further input is not stored, but any input already present in the input stream is not disturbed. If IMAXBEL is not set, no BEL character is echoed, and all input present in the input queue is discarded if the input stream overflows. Output ModesThe c_oflag field specifies the system treatment of out-
put:OPOST Post-process output.
OLCUC Map lower case to upper on output.ONLCR Map NL to CR-NL on output.
OCRNL Map CR to NL on output. ONOCR No CR output at column 0. ONLRET NL performs CR function. OFILL Use fill characters for delay. OFDEL Fill is DEL, else NULL. NLDLY Select newline delays: NL0 NL1CRDLY Select carriage-return delays:
CR0 CR1 CR2 CR3 TABDLY Select horizontal tab delays or tab expansion: o TAB0 o TAB1SunOS 5.11 Last change: 13 Apr 2010 14
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o TAB2o TAB3 - expand tabs to spaces
o XTABS - expand tabs to spaces
BSDLY Select backspace delays: BS0 BS1 VTDLY Select vertical tab delays: VT0 VT1 FFDLY Select form feed delays: FF0 FF1If OPOST is set, output characters are post-processed as
indicated by the remaining flags; otherwise, characters are transmitted without change. If OLCUC is set, a lower case alphabetic character is transmitted as the corresponding upper case character. This function is often used in conjunction with IUCLC.If ONLCR is set, the NL character is transmitted as the CR-
NL character pair. If OCRNL is set, the CR character is transmitted as the NL character. If ONOCR is set, no CR character is transmitted when at column 0 (first position). If ONRET is set, the NL character is assumed to do thecarriage-return function; the column pointer is set to 0 and
the delays specified for CR are used. Otherwise, the NLcharacter is assumed to do just the line-feed function; the
column pointer remains unchanged. The column pointer is also set to 0 if the CR character is actually transmitted. The delay bits specify how long transmission stops to allow for mechanical or other movement when certain characters are sent to the terminal. In all cases, a value of 0 indicates no delay. If OFILL is set, fill characters are transmitted for delay instead of a timed delay. This is useful for high baud rate terminals that need only a minimal delay. If OFDEL is set, the fill character is DEL ; otherwise it isSunOS 5.11 Last change: 13 Apr 2010 15
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NULL.If a form-feed or vertical-tab delay is specified, it lasts
for about 2 seconds. Newline delay lasts about 0.10 seconds. If ONLRET is set,the carriage-return delays are used instead of the newline
delays. If OFILL is set, two fill characters are transmit-
ted.Carriage-return delay type 1 is dependent on the current
column position, type 2 is about 0.10 seconds, and type 3 is about 0.15 seconds. If OFILL is set, delay type 1 transmitstwo fill characters, and type 2 transmits four fill charac-
ters.Horizontal-tab delay type 1 is dependent on the current
column position. Type 2 is about 0.10 seconds. Type 3 speci-
fies that tabs are to be expanded into spaces. If OFILL is set, two fill characters are transmitted for any delay. Backspace delay lasts about 0.05 seconds. If OFILL is set, one fill character is transmitted. The actual delays depend on line speed and system load. Control ModesThe c_cflag field describes the hardware control of the ter-
minal: CBAUD Baud rate: B0 Hang up B50 50 baud B75 75 baud B110 110 baudSunOS 5.11 Last change: 13 Apr 2010 16
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B134 134 baud B150 150 baud B200 200 baud B300 300 baud B600 600 baud B1200 1200 baud B1800 1800 baud B2400 2400 baud B4800 4800 baud B9600 9600 baud B19200 19200 baud EXTA External A B38400 38400 baud EXTB External B B57600 57600 baud B76800 76800 baud B115200 115200 baudSunOS 5.11 Last change: 13 Apr 2010 17
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B153600 153600 baud B230400 230400 baud B307200 307200 baud B460800 460800 baud CSIZE Character size: CS5 5 bits CS6 6 bits CS7 7 bits CS8 8 bits CSTOPB Send two stop bits, else one CREAD Enable receiver PARENB Parity enable PARODD Odd parity, else even HUPCL Hang up on last closeCLOCAL Local line, else dial-up
CIBAUD Input baud rate, if different from output rate PAREXT Extended parity for mark and space paritySunOS 5.11 Last change: 13 Apr 2010 18
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CRTSXOFF Enable inbound hardware flow control CRTSCTS Enable outbound hardware flow control CBAUDEXT Bit to indicate output speed > B38400 CIBAUDEXT Bit to indicate input speed > B38400 The CBAUD bits together with the CBAUDEXT bit specify theoutput baud rate. To retrieve the output speed from the ter-
mios structure pointed to by termios_p see the following
code segment.speed_t ospeed;
if (termios_p->c_cflag & CBAUDEXT)
ospeed = (termios_p->c_cflag & CBAUD) + CBAUD + 1;
elseospeed = termios_p->c_cflag & CBAUD;
To store the output speed in the termios structure pointed
to by termios_p see the following code segment.
speed_t ospeed;
if (ospeed > CBAUD) {termios_p->c_cflag |= CBAUDEXT;
ospeed -= (CBAUD + 1);
} elsetermios_p->c_cflag &= ~CBAUDEXT;
termios_p->c_cflag =
(termios_p->c_cflag & ~CBAUD) | (ospeed & CBAUD);
The zero baud rate, B0, is used to hang up the connection.If B0 is specified, the data-terminal-ready signal is not
asserted. Normally, this disconnects the line. If the CIBAUDEXT or CIBAUD bits are not zero, they specifythe input baud rate, with the CBAUDEXT and CBAUD bits speci-
fying the output baud rate; otherwise, the output and input baud rates are both specified by the CBAUDEXT and CBAUD bits. The values for the CIBAUD bits are the same as the values for the CBAUD bits, shifted left IBSHIFT bits. For any particular hardware, impossible speed changes areSunOS 5.11 Last change: 13 Apr 2010 19
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ignored. To retrieve the input speed in the termios struc-
ture pointed to by termios_p see the following code seg-
ment.speed_t ispeed;
if (termios_p->c_cflag & CIBAUDEXT)
ispeed = ((termios_p->c_cflag & CIBAUD) >> IBSHIFT)
+ (CIBAUD >> IBSHIFT) + 1; elseispeed = (termios_p->c_cflag & CIBAUD) >> IBSHIFT;
To store the input speed in the termios structure pointed
to by termios_p see the following code segment.
speed_t ispeed;
if (ispeed == 0) {ispeed = termios_p->c_cflag & CBAUD;
if (termios_p->c_cflag & CBAUDEXT)
ispeed += (CBAUD + 1); } if ((ispeed << IBSHIFT) > CIBAUD) {termios_p->c_cflag |= CIBAUDEXT;
ispeed -= ((CIBAUD >> IBSHIFT) + 1);
} elsetermios_p->c_cflag &= ~CIBAUDEXT;
termios_p->c_cflag =
(termios_p->c_cflag & ~CIBAUD) |
((ispeed << IBSHIFT) & CIBAUD); The CSIZE bits specify the character size in bits for both transmission and reception. This size does not include the parity bit, if any. If CSTOPB is set, two stop bits are used; otherwise, one stop bit is used. For example, at 110 baud, two stops bits are required. If PARENB is set, parity generation and detection is enabled, and a parity bit is added to each character. If parity is enabled, the PARODD flag specifies odd parity if set; otherwise, even parity is used. If CREAD is set, the receiver is enabled. Otherwise, no characters are received.If HUPCL is set, the line is disconnected when the last pro-
cess with the line open closes it or terminates. That is,SunOS 5.11 Last change: 13 Apr 2010 20
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the data-terminal-ready signal is not asserted.
If CLOCAL is set, the line is assumed to be a local, direct connection with no modem control; otherwise, modem control is assumed. If CRTSXOFF is set, inbound hardware flow control is enabled. If CRTSCTS is set, outbound hardware flow control is enabled. The four possible combinations for the state of CRTSCTS and CRTSXOFF bits and their interactions are described below. Case A: CRTSCTS off, CRTSXOFF off. In this case the hardware flow control is disabled.Case B: CRTSCTS on, CRTSXOFF off. In this case only out-
bound hardware flow control is enabled. The stateof CTS signal is used to do outbound flow con-
trol. It is expected that output will be suspended if CTS is low and resumed when CTS is high. Case C: CRTSCTS off, CRTSXOFF on. In this case only inbound hardware flow control is enabled. The state of RTS signal is used to do inbound flow control. It is expected that input will be suspended if RTS is low and resumed when RTS is high. Case D: CRTSCTS on, CRTSXOFF on. In this case both inbound and outbound hardware flow control areenabled. Uses the state of CTS signal to do out-
bound flow control and RTS signal to do inbound flow control. Local ModesThe c_lflag field of the argument structure is used by the
line discipline to control terminal functions. The basic line discipline provides the following:SunOS 5.11 Last change: 13 Apr 2010 21
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ISIG Enable signals. ICANON Canonical input (erase and kill processing). XCASE Canonical upper/lower presentation. ECHO Enable echo.ECHOE Echo erase character as BS-SP-BS &.
ECHOK Echo NL after kill character. ECHONL Echo NL . NOFLSH Disable flush after interrupt or quit. TOSTOP Send SIGTTOU for background output. ECHOCTL Echo control characters as char, delete as ^?. ECHOPRT Echo erase character as character erased.ECHOKE BS-SP-BS erase entire line on line kill.
FLUSHO Output is being flushed.PENDIN Retype pending input at next read or input char-
acter.IEXTEN Enable extended (implementation-defined) func-
tions. If ISIG is set, each input character is checked against the special control characters INTR, QUIT, SWTCH, SUSP, STATUS,and DSUSP. If an input character matches one of these con-
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is performed. (Note: If SWTCH is set and the character matches, the character is simply discarded. No other action is taken.) If ISIG is not set, no checking is done. Thus, these special input functions are possible only if ISIG is set. If ICANON is set, canonical processing is enabled. This enables the erase and kill edit functions, and the assemblyof input characters into lines delimited by NL-c, EOF, EOL,
and EOL . If ICANON is not set, read requests are satisfied directly from the input queue. A read is not satisfied until at least MIN characters have been received or the timeout value TIME has expired between characters. This allows fast bursts of input to be read efficiently while still allowing single character input. The time value represents tenths of seconds. If XCASE is set and ICANON is set, an upper case letter is accepted on input if preceded by a backslash (\) character, and is output preceded by a backslash (\) character. In this mode, the following escape sequences are generated on output and accepted on input:SunOS 5.11 Last change: 13 Apr 2010 23
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____________________________________________________________
| FOR: | USE: ||_____________________________|_____________________________|
| ` | \' ||_____________________________|_____________________________|
| | | \! ||_____________________________|_____________________________|
| ~ | \^ ||_____________________________|_____________________________|
| { | \( ||_____________________________|_____________________________|
| } | \) ||_____________________________|_____________________________|
| \ | \\ ||_____________________________|_____________________________|
For example, input A as \a, \n as \\n, and \N as \\\n. If ECHO is set, characters are echoed as received.When ICANON is set, the following echo functions are possi-
ble. o If ECHO and ECHOE are set, and ECHOPRT is not set, the ERASE and WERASE characters are echoed as one or more ASCII BS SP BS, which clears the last character(s) from a CRT screen. o If ECHO, ECHOPRT, and IEXTEN are set, the first ERASE and WERASE character in a sequence echoes as a backslash (\), followed by the characters being erased. Subsequent ERASE and WERASE characters echo the characters being erased, in reverse order.The next non-erase character causes a `/' (slash)
to be typed before it is echoed. ECHOPRT should be used for hard copy terminals. o If ECHOKE and IEXTEN are set, the kill character is echoed by erasing each character on the line from the screen (using the mechanism selected by ECHOE and ECHOPRa). o If ECHOK is set, and ECHOKE is not set, the NL character is echoed after the kill character to emphasize that the line is deleted. Note that a `' (escape) character or an LNEXT character preceding the erase or kill character removes any special function.SunOS 5.11 Last change: 13 Apr 2010 24
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o If ECHONL is set, the NL character is echoed even if ECHO is not set. This is useful for terminalsset to local echo (so called half-duplex).
If ECHOCTL and IEXTEN are set, all control characters (char-
acters with codes between 0 and 37 octal) other than ASCII TAB, ASCII NL, the START character, and the STOP character, ASCII CR, and ASCII BS are echoed as ^ X, where X is thecharacter given by adding 100 octal to the code of the con-
trol character (so that the character with octal code 1 is echoed as ^ A), and the ASCII DEL character, with code 177 octal, is echoed as ^ ?. If NOFLSH is set, the normal flush of the input and output queues associated with the INTR, QUIT, and SUSP characters is not done. This bit should be set when restarting systemcalls that read from or write to a terminal (see sigac-
tion(2)). If TOSTOP and IEXTEN are set, the signal SIGTTOU is sent to a process that tries to write to its controlling terminalif it is not in the foreground process group for that termi-
nal. This signal normally stops the process. Otherwise, the output generated by that process is output to the current output stream. Processes that are blocking or ignoring SIGTTOU signals are excepted and allowed to produce output, if any. If FLUSHO and IEXTEN are set, data written to the terminal is discarded. This bit is set when the FLUSH character is typed. A program can cancel the effect of typing the FLUSH character by clearing FLUSHO. If PENDIN and IEXTEN are set, any input that has not yet been read is reprinted when the next character arrives as input. PENDIN is then automatically cleared.If IEXTEN is set, the following implementation-defined func-
tions are enabled: special characters ( WERASE, REPRINT, DISCARD, and LNEXT) and local flags ( TOSTOP, ECHOCTL, ECHOPRT, ECHOKE, FLUSHO, and PENDIN). Minimum and Timeout The MIN and TIME values were described previously, in thesubsection, Non-canonical Mode Input Processing. The initial
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Terminal Size The number of lines and columns on the terminal's display isspecified in the winsize structure defined by sys/termios.h
and includes the following members:unsigned short ws_row; /* rows, in characters */
unsigned short ws_col; /* columns, in characters */
unsigned short ws_xpixel; /* horizontal size, in pixels */
unsigned short ws_ypixel; /* vertical size, in pixels */
Termio StructureThe SunOS/SVR4 termio structure is used by some ioctls; it
is defined by sys/termio.h and includes the following
members:unsigned short c_iflag; /* input modes */
unsigned short c_oflag; /* output modes */
unsigned short c_cflag; /* control modes */
unsigned short c_lflag; /* local modes */
char c_line; /* line discipline */
unsigned char c_cc[NCC]; /* control chars */
The special control characters are defined by the arrayc_cc. The symbolic name NCC is the size of the Control-
character array and is also defined by termio.h. The rela-
tive positions, subscript names, and typical default values for each function are as follows:SunOS 5.11 Last change: 13 Apr 2010 26
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| Relative Positions | Subscript Names | Typical Default Values||____________________|____________________|________________________|
| 0 | VINTR | EXT ||____________________|____________________|________________________|
| 1 | VQUIT | FS ||____________________|____________________|________________________|
| 2 | VERASE | DEL ||____________________|____________________|________________________|
| 3 | VKILL | NAK ||____________________|____________________|________________________|
| 4 | VEOF | EOT ||____________________|____________________|________________________|
| 5 | VEOL | NUL ||____________________|____________________|________________________|
| 6 | VEOL2 | NUL ||____________________|____________________|________________________|
| 7 | Reserved | ||____________________|____________________|________________________|
The MIN values is stored in the VMIN element of the c_cc
array; the TIME value is stored in the VTIME element of thec_cc array. The VMIN element is the same element as the
VEOF element; the VTIME element is the same element as the VEOL element.The calls that use the termio structure only affect the
flags and control characters that can be stored in the ter-
mio structure; all other flags and control characters are unaffected. Modem Lines On special files representing serial ports, modem control lines can be read. Control lines (if the underlying hardware supports it) may also be changed. Status lines areread-only. The following modem control and status lines may
be supported by a device; they are defined by sys/termios.h:
TIOCM_LE line enable
TIOCM_DTR data terminal ready
TIOCM_RTS request to send
TIOCM_ST secondary transmit
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TIOCM_SR secondary receive
TIOCM_CTS clear to send
TIOCM_CAR carrier detect
TIOCM_RNG ring
TIOCM_DSR data set ready
TIOCM_CD is a synonym for TIOCM_CAR, and TIOCM_RI is a
synonym for TIOCM_RNG. Not all of these are necessarily sup-
ported by any particular device; check the manual page for the device in question. The software carrier mode can be enabled or disabled using the TIOCSSOFTCAR ioctl. If the software carrier flag for a line is off, the line pays attention to the hardware carrier detect (DCD) signal. The tty device associated with the linecannot be opened until DCD is asserted. If the software car-
rier flag is on, the line behaves as if DCD is always asserted. The software carrier flag is usually turned on for locally connected terminals or other devices, and is off for lines with modems. To be able to issue the TIOCGSOFTCAR and TIOCSSOFTCAR ioctlcalls, the tty line should be opened with O_NDELAY so that
the open(2) will not wait for the carrier. Default ValuesThe initial termios values upon driver open is configur-
able. This is accomplished by setting the "ttymodes" pro-
perty in the file /kernel/drv/options.conf. Since this pro-
perty is assigned during system initialization, any change to the "ttymodes" property will not take effect until the next reboot. The string value assigned to this property should be in the same format as the output of the stty(1)command with the -g option.
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If this property is undefined, the following termios modes
are in effect. The initial input control value is BRKINT, ICRNL, IXON, IMAXBEL. The initial output control value is OPOST, ONLCR, TAB3. The initial hardware control value isB9600, CS8, CREAD. The initial line-discipline control value
is ISIG, ICANON, IEXTEN, ECHO, ECHOK, ECHOE, ECHOKE, ECHOCTL. IOCTLSThe ioctls supported by devices and STREAMS modules provid-
ing the termios(3C) interface are listed below. Some calls
may not be supported by all devices or modules. The func-
tionality provided by these calls is also available throughthe preferred function call interface specified on termios.
TCGETS The argument is a pointer to a termios
structure. The current terminal parameters are fetched and stored into that structure.TCSETS The argument is a pointer to a termios
structure. The current terminal parameters are set from the values stored in that structure. The change is immediate.TCSETSW The argument is a pointer to a termios
structure. The current terminal parameters are set from the values stored in thatstructure. The change occurs after all char-
acters queued for output have been transmit-
ted. This form should be used when changing parameters that affect output.TCSETSF The argument is a pointer to a termios
structure. The current terminal parameters are set from the values stored in thatstructure. The change occurs after all char-
acters queued for output have been transmit-
ted; all characters queued for input are discarded and then the change occurs.TCGETA The argument is a pointer to a termio struc-
ture. The current terminal parameters are fetched, and those parameters that can bestored in a termio structure are stored into
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TCSETA The argument is a pointer to a termio
structure. Those terminal parameters thatcan be stored in a termio structure are set
from the values stored in that structure. The change is immediate.TCSETAW The argument is a pointer to a termio struc-
ture. Those terminal parameters that can bestored in a termio structure are set from
the values stored in that structure. The change occurs after all characters queued for output have been transmitted. This form should be used when changing parameters that affect output.TCSETAF The argument is a pointer to a termio struc-
ture. Those terminal parameters that can bestored in a termio structure are set from
the values stored in that structure. The change occurs after all characters queuedfor output have been transmitted; all char-
acters queued for input are discarded and then the change occurs. TCSBRK The argument is an int value. Wait for the output to drain. If the argument is 0, then send a break (zero valued bits for 0.25 seconds). TCXONC Start/stop control. The argument is an int value. If the argument is 0, suspend output; if 1, restart suspended output; if 2, suspend input; if 3, restart suspended input.TCFLSH The argument is an int value. If the argu-
ment is 0, flush the input queue; if 1, flush the output queue; if 2, flush both the input and output queues.TIOCGPGRP The argument is a pointer to a pid_t. Set
the value of that pid_t to the process
group ID of the foreground process group associated with the terminal. Seetermios(3C) for a description of TCGETPGRP.
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TIOCNOTTY Takes no argument. Release the controlling terminal associated with the currentprocesses session group. The calling pro-
cess must be the session group leader to issue this ioctl. TIOCSCTTY Takes no argument. Attempts to make the current terminal the controlling terminal for the current processes session group. The current process must be the session group leader and the session group must not already have a controlling terminal bound to it. Also, the current terminal must not already be a controlling terminal for any other session group.TIOCSPGRP The argument is a pointer to a pid_t. Asso-
ciate the process group whose process groupID is specified by the value of that pid_t
with the terminal. The new process group value must be in the range of valid process group ID values. Otherwise, the error EPERM is returned.TIOCGSID The argument is a pointer to a pid_t. The
session ID of the terminal is fetched andstored in the pid_t.
TIOCGWINSZ The argument is a pointer to a winsize structure. The terminal driver's notion ofthe terminal size is stored into that struc-
ture. TIOCSWINSZ The argument is a pointer to a winsize structure. The terminal driver's notion of the terminal size is set from the values specified in that structure. If the new sizes are different from the old sizes, a SIGWINCH signal is set to the process group of the terminal. TIOCMBIS The argument is a pointer to an int whose value is a mask containing modem control lines to be turned on. The control lines whose bits are set in the argument are turned on; no other control lines areSunOS 5.11 Last change: 13 Apr 2010 31
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affected. TIOCMBIC The argument is a pointer to an int whose value is a mask containing modem control lines to be turned off. The control lines whose bits are set in the argument are turned off; no other control lines are affected. TIOCMGET The argument is a pointer to an int. The current state of the modem status lines is fetched and stored in the int pointed to by the argument.TIOCMSET The argument is a pointer to an int con-
taining a new set of modem control lines. The modem control lines are turned on or off, depending on whether the bit for that mode is set or clear. TIOCSPPS The argument is a pointer to an int thatdetermines whether pulse-per-second event
handling is to be enabled (non-zero) or dis-
abled (zero). If a one-pulse-per-second
reference clock is attached to the serial line's data carrier detect input, the local system clock will be calibrated to it. Aclock with a high error, that is, a devia-
tion of more than 25 microseconds per tick, is ignored. TIOCGPPS The argument is a pointer to an int, in which the state of the even handling isreturned. The int is set to a non-zero value
if pulse-per-second (PPS) handling has been
enabled. Otherwise, it is set to zero. TIOCGSOFTCAR The argument is a pointer to an int whose value is 1 or 0, depending on whether the software carrier detect is turned on or off. TIOCSSOFTCAR The argument is a pointer to an int whose value is 1 or 0. The value of the integer should be 0 to turn off software carrier, or 1 to turn it on.SunOS 5.11 Last change: 13 Apr 2010 32
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TIOCGPPSEV The argument is a pointer to a structppsclockev. This structure contains the fol-
lowing members: struct timeval tv;uint32_t serial;
"tv" is the system clock timestamp when the event (pulse on the DCD pin) occurred. "serial" is the ordinal of the event, which each consecutive event being assigned the next ordinal. The first event registered gets a "serial" value of 1. The TIOCGPPSEV returns the last event registered; multiple calls will persistently return the same event until a new one is registered. In addition to time stamping and saving theevent, if it is of one-second period and of
consistently high accuracy, the local system clock will automatically calibrate to it. FILES Files in or under /devSEE ALSO
stty(1), fork(2), getpgid(2), getsid(2), ioctl(2), set-
sid(2), sigaction(2), signal(3C), tcsetpgrp(3C),termios(3C), signal.h(3HEAD), streamio(7I)
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