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termios.h — define values for termios

#include <termios.h>

The <termios.h> header shall contain the definitions used by the terminal I/O interfaces (see Chapter 11, General Terminal Interface for the structures and names defined).

The <termios.h> header shall define the following data types through typedef:

Used for terminal special characters.
Used for terminal baud rates.
Used for terminal modes.

The above types shall be all unsigned integer types.

The implementation shall support one or more programming environments in which the widths of cc_t, speed_t, and tcflag_t are no greater than the width of type long. The names of these programming environments can be obtained using the confstr() function or the getconf utility.

The <termios.h> header shall define the termios structure, which shall include at least 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 characters.

The <termios.h> header shall define the following symbolic constant:

Size of the array c_cc for control characters.

The <termios.h> header shall define the following symbolic constants for use as subscripts for the array c_cc:

Subscript Usage
Canonical Mode Non-Canonical Mode Description
VEOF EOF character.
VEOL EOL character.
VERASE ERASE character.
VINTR VINTR INTR character.
VKILL KILL character.
VMIN MIN value.
VQUIT VQUIT QUIT character.
VSTART VSTART START character.
VSTOP VSTOP STOP character.
VSUSP VSUSP SUSP character.
VTIME TIME value.

The subscript values shall be suitable for use in #if preprocessing directives and shall be distinct, except that the VMIN and VTIME subscripts may have the same values as the VEOF and VEOL subscripts, respectively.

The <termios.h> header shall define the following symbolic constants for use as flags in the c_iflag field. The c_iflag field describes the basic terminal input control.

Signal interrupt on break.
Map CR to NL on input.
Ignore break condition.
Ignore CR.
Ignore characters with parity errors.
Map NL to CR on input.
Enable input parity check.
Strip character.
Enable any character to restart output.
Enable start/stop input control.
Enable start/stop output control.
Mark parity errors.

The <termios.h> header shall define the following symbolic constants for use as flags in the c_oflag field. The c_oflag field specifies the system treatment of output.

Post-process output.
Map NL to CR-NL on output.
Map CR to NL on output.
No CR output at column 0.
NL performs CR function.
Fill is DEL.
Use fill characters for delay.
Select newline delays:
Newline type 0.
Newline type 1.
Select carriage-return delays:
Carriage-return delay type 0.
Carriage-return delay type 1.
Carriage-return delay type 2.
Carriage-return delay type 3.
Select horizontal-tab delays:
Horizontal-tab delay type 0.
Horizontal-tab delay type 1.
Horizontal-tab delay type 2.
Expand tabs to spaces.
Select backspace delays:
Backspace-delay type 0.
Backspace-delay type 1.
Select vertical-tab delays:
Vertical-tab delay type 0.
Vertical-tab delay type 1.
Select form-feed delays:
Form-feed delay type 0.
Form-feed delay type 1.

The <termios.h> header shall define the following symbolic constants for use as values of objects of type speed_t.

The input and output baud rates are stored in the termios structure. These are the valid values for objects of type speed_t. Not all baud rates need be supported by the underlying hardware.

Hang up
50 baud
75 baud
110 baud
134.5 baud
150 baud
200 baud
300 baud
600 baud
1200 baud
1800 baud
2400 baud
4800 baud
9600 baud
19200 baud
38400 baud

The <termios.h> header shall define the following symbolic constants for use as flags in the c_cflag field. The c_cflag field describes the hardware control of the terminal; not all values specified are required to be supported by the underlying hardware.

Character size:
5 bits
6 bits
7 bits
8 bits
Send two stop bits, else one.
Enable receiver.
Parity enable.
Odd parity, else even.
Hang up on last close.
Ignore modem status lines.

The implementation shall support the functionality associated with the symbols CS7, CS8, CSTOPB, PARODD, and PARENB.

The <termios.h> header shall define the following symbolic constants for use as flags in the c_lflag field. The c_lflag field of the argument structure is used to control various terminal functions.

Enable echo.
Echo erase character as error-correcting backspace.
Echo KILL.
Echo NL.
Canonical input (erase and kill processing).
Enable extended input character processing.
Enable signals.
Disable flush after interrupt or quit.
Send SIGTTOU for background output.

The <termios.h> header shall define the following symbolic constants for use with tcsetattr():

Change attributes immediately.
Change attributes when output has drained.
Change attributes when output has drained; also flush pending input.

The <termios.h> header shall define the following symbolic constants for use with tcflush():

Flush pending input.
Flush both pending input and untransmitted output.
Flush untransmitted output.

The <termios.h> header shall define the following symbolic constants for use with tcflow():

Transmit a STOP character, intended to suspend input data.
Transmit a START character, intended to restart input data.
Suspend output.
Restart output.

The <termios.h> header shall define the pid_t type as described in <sys/types.h>.

The following shall be declared as functions and may also be defined as macros. Function prototypes shall be provided.

speed_t cfgetispeed(const struct termios *);
speed_t cfgetospeed(const struct termios *);
int     cfsetispeed(struct termios *, speed_t);
int     cfsetospeed(struct termios *, speed_t);
int     tcdrain(int);
int     tcflow(int, int);
int     tcflush(int, int);
int     tcgetattr(int, struct termios *);
pid_t   tcgetsid(int);
int     tcsendbreak(int, int);
int     tcsetattr(int, int, const struct termios *);

The following sections are informative.

The following names are reserved for XSI-conformant systems to use as an extension to the above; therefore strictly conforming applications shall not use them:

CBAUD EXTB VDSUSP
DEFECHO FLUSHO VLNEXT
ECHOCTL LOBLK VREPRINT
ECHOKE PENDIN VSTATUS
ECHOPRT SWTCH VWERASE
EXTA VDISCARD

None.

None.

<sys_types.h>

The System Interfaces volume of POSIX.1‐2017, cfgetispeed(), cfgetospeed(), cfsetispeed(), cfsetospeed(), confstr(), tcdrain(), tcflow(), tcflush(), tcgetattr(), tcgetsid(), tcsendbreak(), tcsetattr()

The Shell and Utilities volume of POSIX.1‐2017, Chapter 11, General Terminal Interface, getconf

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

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