NAME¶
termios — 
general terminal line
  discipline
SYNOPSIS¶
#include <termios.h>
DESCRIPTION¶
This describes a general terminal line discipline that is supported on tty
  asynchronous communication ports.
Opening a Terminal Device
  File¶
When a terminal file is opened, it normally causes the process to wait until a
  connection is established. For most hardware, the presence of a connection is
  indicated by the assertion of the hardware 
CARRIER
  line. If the termios structure associated with the terminal file has the
  
CLOCAL flag set in the cflag, or if the
  
O_NONBLOCK flag is set in the
  
open(2) call, then the open will succeed even without a
  connection being present. In practice, applications seldom open these files;
  they are opened by special programs, such as 
getty(8) or
  
rlogind(8), and become an application's standard input,
  output, and error files.
Job Control in a Nutshell¶
Every process is associated with a particular process group and session. The
  grouping is hierarchical: every member of a particular process group is a
  member of the same session. This structuring is used in managing groups of
  related processes for purposes of 
job control; that is, the
  ability from the keyboard (or from program control) to simultaneously stop or
  restart a complex command (a command composed of one or more related
  processes). The grouping into process groups allows delivering of signals that
  stop or start the group as a whole, along with arbitrating which process group
  has access to the single controlling terminal. The grouping at a higher layer
  into sessions is to restrict the job control related signals and system calls
  to within processes resulting from a particular instance of a
  “login”. Typically, a session is created when a user logs in, and
  the login terminal is setup to be the controlling terminal; all processes
  spawned from that login shell are in the same session, and inherit the
  controlling terminal.
A job control shell operating interactively (that is, reading commands from a
  terminal) normally groups related processes together by placing them into the
  same process group. A set of processes in the same process group is
  collectively referred to as a “job”. When the foreground process
  group of the terminal is the same as the process group of a particular job,
  that job is said to be in the “foreground”. When the process group
  of the terminal is different from the process group of a job (but is still the
  controlling terminal), that job is said to be in the “background”.
  Normally the shell reads a command and starts the job that implements that
  command. If the command is to be started in the foreground (typical), it sets
  the process group of the terminal to the process group of the started job,
  waits for the job to complete, and then sets the process group of the terminal
  back to its own process group (it puts itself into the foreground). If the job
  is to be started in the background (as denoted by the shell operator
  "&"), it never changes the process group of the terminal and
  does not wait for the job to complete (that is, it immediately attempts to
  read the next command). If the job is started in the foreground, the user may
  type a key (usually ‘
^Z’) which generates
  the terminal stop signal (
SIGTSTP) and has the effect
  of stopping the entire job. The shell will notice that the job stopped, and
  will resume running after placing itself in the foreground. The shell also has
  commands for placing stopped jobs in the background, and for placing stopped
  or background jobs into the foreground.
Orphaned Process Groups¶
An orphaned process group is a process group that has no process whose parent is
  in a different process group, yet is in the same session. Conceptually it
  means a process group that does not have a parent that could do anything if it
  were to be stopped. For example, the initial login shell is typically in an
  orphaned process group. Orphaned process groups are immune to keyboard
  generated stop signals and job control signals resulting from reads or writes
  to the controlling terminal.
The Controlling Terminal¶
A terminal may belong to a process as its controlling terminal. Each process of
  a session that has a controlling terminal has the same controlling terminal. A
  terminal may be the controlling terminal for at most one session. The
  controlling terminal for a session is allocated by the session leader by
  issuing the 
TIOCSCTTY ioctl. A controlling terminal is
  never acquired by merely opening a terminal device file. When a controlling
  terminal becomes associated with a session, its foreground process group is
  set to the process group of the session leader.
The controlling terminal is inherited by a child process during a
  
fork(2) function call. A process relinquishes its
  controlling terminal when it creates a new session with the
  
setsid(2) function; other processes remaining in the old
  session that had this terminal as their controlling terminal continue to have
  it. A process does not relinquish its controlling terminal simply by closing
  all of its file descriptors associated with the controlling terminal if other
  processes continue to have it open.
When a controlling process terminates, the controlling terminal is disassociated
  from the current session, allowing it to be acquired by a new session leader.
  Subsequent access to the terminal by other processes in the earlier session
  will be denied, with attempts to access the terminal treated as if modem
  disconnect had been sensed.
Terminal Access Control¶
If a process is in the foreground process group of its controlling terminal,
  read operations are allowed. Any attempts by a process in a background process
  group to read from its controlling terminal causes a
  
SIGTTIN signal to be sent to the process's group
  unless one of the following special cases apply: if the reading process is
  ignoring or blocking the 
SIGTTIN signal, or if the
  process group of the reading process is orphaned, the
  
read(2) returns -1 with 
errno set to
  EIO and no signal is sent. The default action of the
  
SIGTTIN signal is to stop the process to which it is
  sent.
If a process is in the foreground process group of its controlling terminal,
  write operations are allowed. Attempts by a process in a background process
  group to write to its controlling terminal will cause the process group to be
  sent a 
SIGTTOU signal unless one of the following
  special cases apply: if 
TOSTOP is not set, or if
  
TOSTOP is set and the process is ignoring or blocking
  the 
SIGTTOU signal, the process is allowed to write to
  the terminal and the 
SIGTTOU signal is not sent. If
  
TOSTOP is set, and the process group of the writing
  process is orphaned, and the writing process is not ignoring or blocking
  
SIGTTOU, the 
write(2) returns -1
  with errno set to 
EIO and no signal is sent.
Certain calls that set terminal parameters are treated in the same fashion as
  write, except that 
TOSTOP is ignored; that is, the
  effect is identical to that of terminal writes when
  
TOSTOP is set.
A terminal device associated with a terminal device file may operate in
  full-duplex mode, so that data may arrive even while output is occurring. Each
  terminal device file has associated with it an input queue, into which
  incoming data is stored by the system before being read by a process. The
  system imposes a limit, {
MAX_INPUT}, on the number of
  bytes that may be stored in the input queue. The behavior of the system when
  this limit is exceeded depends on the setting of the
  
IMAXBEL flag in the termios
  
c_iflag. If this flag is set, the terminal is sent an
  ASCII 
BEL character each time a character is received
  while the input queue is full. Otherwise, the input queue is flushed upon
  receiving the character.
Two general kinds of input processing are available, determined by whether the
  terminal device file is in canonical mode or noncanonical mode. Additionally,
  input characters are processed according to the 
c_iflag
  and 
c_lflag fields. Such processing can include echoing,
  which in general means transmitting input characters immediately back to the
  terminal when they are received from the terminal. This is useful for
  terminals that can operate in full-duplex mode.
The manner in which data is provided to a process reading from a terminal device
  file is dependent on whether the terminal device file is in canonical or
  noncanonical mode.
Another dependency is whether the 
O_NONBLOCK flag is set
  by 
open(2) or 
fcntl(2). If the
  
O_NONBLOCK flag is clear, then the read request is
  blocked until data is available or a signal has been received. If the
  
O_NONBLOCK flag is set, then the read request is
  completed, without blocking, in one of three ways:
  - If there is enough data available to satisfy the entire
      request, and the read completes successfully the number of bytes read is
      returned.
 
  - If there is not enough data available to satisfy the
      entire request, and the read completes successfully, having read as much
      data as possible, the number of bytes read is returned.
 
  - If there is no data available, the read returns -1, with
      errno set to 
EAGAIN. 
When data is available depends on whether the input processing mode is canonical
  or noncanonical.
In canonical mode input processing, terminal input is processed in units of
  lines. A line is delimited by a newline
  ‘
\n’ character, an end-of-file
  (
EOF) character, or an end-of-line
  (
EOL) character. See the
  
Special Characters section for
  more information on 
EOF and
  
EOL. This means that a read request will not return
  until an entire line has been typed, or a signal has been received. Also, no
  matter how many bytes are requested in the read call, at most one line is
  returned. It is not, however, necessary to read a whole line at once; any
  number of bytes, even one, may be requested in a read without losing
  information.
{
MAX_CANON} is a limit on the number of bytes in a line.
  The behavior of the system when this limit is exceeded is the same as when the
  input queue limit {
MAX_INPUT}, is exceeded.
Erase and kill processing occur when either of two special characters, the
  
ERASE and 
KILL characters (see
  the 
Special Characters section),
  is received. This processing affects data in the input queue that has not yet
  been delimited by a newline 
NL,
  
EOF, or 
EOL character. This
  un-delimited data makes up the current line. The 
ERASE
  character deletes the last character in the current line, if there is any. The
  
KILL character deletes all data in the current line,
  if there is any. The 
ERASE and
  
KILL characters have no effect if there is no data in
  the current line. The 
ERASE and
  
KILL characters themselves are not placed in the input
  queue.
In noncanonical mode input processing, input bytes are not assembled into lines,
  and erase and kill processing does not occur. The values of the
  
VMIN and 
VTIME members of the
  
c_cc array are used to determine how to process the
  bytes received.
MIN represents the minimum number of bytes that should
  be received when the 
read(2) function successfully returns.
  
TIME is a timer of 0.1 second granularity that is used
  to time out bursty and short term data transmissions. If
  
MIN is greater than 
{
  MAX_INPUT}, the response to the request is undefined.
  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 inter-byte timer and is
  activated after the first byte is received. Since it is an inter-byte timer,
  it is reset after a byte is received. The interaction between
  
MIN and 
TIME is as follows: as
  soon as one byte is received, the inter-byte timer is started. If
  
MIN bytes are received before the inter-byte timer
  expires (remember that the timer is reset upon receipt of each byte), the read
  is satisfied. If the timer expires before 
MIN bytes
  are received, the characters received to that point are returned to the user.
  Note that if 
TIME expires at least one byte is
  returned because the timer would not have been enabled unless a byte was
  received. In this case (
MIN > 0,
  
TIME > 0) the read blocks until the
  
MIN and 
TIME mechanisms are
  activated by the receipt of the first byte, or a signal is received. If data
  is in the buffer at the time of the 
read(), the result is as
  if data had been received immediately after the 
read().
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 is not satisfied until 
MIN bytes are received
  (i.e., the pending read blocks until 
MIN bytes are
  received), or a signal is received. A program that uses this case to read
  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 inter-byte timer. It now
  serves as a read timer that is activated as soon as the read function is
  processed. A read is satisfied as soon as a single byte is received or the
  read timer expires. Note that in this case if the timer expires, no bytes are
  returned. If the timer does not expire, the only way the read can be satisfied
  is if a byte is received. In this case the read will not block indefinitely
  waiting for a byte; if no byte is received within
  
TIME*0.1 seconds after the read is initiated, the read
  returns a value of zero, having read no data. If data is in the buffer at the
  time of the read, the timer is started as if data had been received
  immediately after the read.
Case D: MIN = 0, TIME = 0¶
The minimum of either the number of bytes requested or the number of bytes
  currently available is returned without waiting for more bytes to be input. If
  no characters are available, read returns a value of zero, having read no
  data.
Writing Data and Output
  Processing¶
When a process writes one or more bytes to a terminal device file, they are
  processed according to the 
c_oflag field (see the
  
Output Modes section). The
  implementation may provide a buffering mechanism; as such, when a call to
  
write() completes, all of the bytes written have been
  scheduled for transmission to the device, but the transmission will not
  necessarily have been completed.
Special Characters¶
Certain characters have special functions on input or output or both. These
  functions are summarized as follows:
  INTR 
  - Special character on input and is recognized if the
      
ISIG flag (see the
      Local Modes section) is enabled.
      Generates a SIGINT signal which is sent to all
      processes in the foreground process group for which the terminal is the
      controlling terminal. If ISIG is set, the
      INTR character is discarded when processed. 
  QUIT 
  - Special character on input and is recognized if the
      
ISIG flag is enabled. Generates a
      SIGQUIT signal which is sent to all processes in
      the foreground process group for which the terminal is the controlling
      terminal. If ISIG is set, the
      QUIT character is discarded when processed. 
  ERASE 
  - Special character on input and is recognized if the
      
ICANON flag is set. Erases the last character in
      the current line; see
      Canonical Mode Input
      Processing. It does not erase beyond the start of a line, as delimited
      by an NL, EOF, or
      EOL character. If ICANON
      is set, the ERASE character is discarded when
      processed. 
  KILL 
  - Special character on input and is recognized if the
      
ICANON flag is set. Deletes the entire line, as
      delimited by a NL, EOF, or
      EOL character. If ICANON
      is set, the KILL character is discarded when
      processed. 
  EOF 
  - Special character on input and is recognized if the
      
ICANON flag is set. When received, all the bytes
      waiting to be read are immediately passed to the process, without waiting
      for a newline, and the EOF is discarded. Thus, if
      there are no bytes waiting (that is, the EOF
      occurred at the beginning of a line), a byte count of zero is returned
      from the read(), representing an end-of-file indication.
      If ICANON is set, the EOF
      character is discarded when processed. 
  NL 
  - Special character on input and is recognized if the
      
ICANON flag is set. It is the line delimiter
      ‘\n’. 
  EOL 
  - Special character on input and is recognized if the
      
ICANON flag is set. Is an additional line
      delimiter, like NL. 
  SUSP 
  - If the 
ISIG flag is enabled,
      receipt of the SUSP character causes a
      SIGTSTP signal to be sent to all processes in the
      foreground process group for which the terminal is the controlling
      terminal, and the SUSP character is discarded when
      processed. 
  STOP 
  - Special character on both input and output and is
      recognized if the 
IXON (output control) or
      IXOFF (input control) flag is set. Can be used to
      temporarily suspend output. It is useful with fast terminals to prevent
      output from disappearing before it can be read. If
      IXON is set, the STOP
      character is discarded when processed. 
  START 
  - Special character on both input and output and is
      recognized if the 
IXON (output control) or
      IXOFF (input control) flag is set. Can be used to
      resume output that has been suspended by a STOP
      character. If IXON is set, the
      START character is discarded when processed. 
  CR 
  - Special character on input and is recognized if the
      
ICANON flag is set; it is the
      ‘\r’, as denoted in the C Standard
      {2}. When ICANON and ICRNL
      are set and IGNCR is not set, this character is
      translated into a NL, and has the same effect as a
      NL character. 
The following special characters are extensions defined by this system and are
  not a part of 
IEEE Std 1003.1 (“POSIX.1”)
  termios.
  EOL2 
  - Secondary 
EOL character. Same
      function as EOL. 
  WERASE 
  - Special character on input and is recognized if the
      
ICANON flag is set. Erases the last word in the
      current line according to one of two algorithms. If the
      ALTWERASE flag is not set, first any preceding
      whitespace is erased, and then the maximal sequence of non-whitespace
      characters. If ALTWERASE is set, first any
      preceding whitespace is erased, and then the maximal sequence of
      alphabetic/underscores or non alphabetic/underscores. As a special case in
      this second algorithm, the first previous non-whitespace character is
      skipped in determining whether the preceding word is a sequence of
      alphabetic/underscores. This sounds confusing but turns out to be quite
      practical. 
  REPRINT 
  - Special character on input and is recognized if the
      
ICANON flag is set. Causes the current input edit
      line to be retyped. 
  DSUSP 
  - Has similar actions to the 
SUSP
      character, except that the SIGTSTP signal is
      delivered when one of the processes in the foreground process group issues
      a read() to the controlling terminal. 
  LNEXT 
  - Special character on input and is recognized if the
      
IEXTEN flag is set. Receipt of this character
      causes the next character to be taken literally. 
  DISCARD 
  - Special character on input and is recognized if the
      
IEXTEN flag is set. Receipt of this character
      toggles the flushing of terminal output. 
  STATUS 
  - Special character on input and is recognized if the
      
ICANON flag is set. Receipt of this character
      causes a SIGINFO signal to be sent to the
      foreground process group of the terminal. Also, if the
      NOKERNINFO flag is not set, it causes the kernel
      to write a status message to the terminal that displays the current load
      average, the name of the command in the foreground, its process ID, the
      symbolic wait channel, the number of user and system seconds used, the
      percentage of cpu the process is getting, and the resident set size of the
      process. 
The 
NL and 
CR characters cannot
  be changed. The values for all the remaining characters can be set and are
  described later in the document under Special Control Characters.
Special character functions associated with changeable special control
  characters can be disabled individually by setting their value to
  
{_POSIX_VDISABLE}; see
  
Special Control
  Characters.
If two or more special characters have the same value, the function performed
  when that character is received is undefined.
Modem Disconnect¶
If a modem disconnect is detected by the terminal interface for a controlling
  terminal, and if 
CLOCAL is not set in the
  
c_cflag field for the terminal, the
  
SIGHUP signal is sent to the controlling process
  associated with the terminal. Unless other arrangements have been made, this
  causes the controlling process to terminate. Any subsequent call to the
  
read() function returns the value zero, indicating end of
  file. Thus, processes that read a terminal file and test for end-of-file can
  terminate appropriately after a disconnect. Any subsequent
  
write() to the terminal device returns -1, with
  
errno set to 
EIO, until the
  device is closed.
General Terminal Interface¶
Closing a Terminal Device
  File¶
The last process to close a terminal device file causes any output to be sent to
  the device and any input to be discarded. Then, if
  
HUPCL is set in the control modes, and the
  communications port supports a disconnect function, the terminal device
  performs a disconnect.
Parameters That Can Be Set¶
Routines that need to control certain terminal I/O characteristics do so by
  using the termios structure as defined in the header
  
<termios.h>. This structure contains
  minimally four scalar elements of bit flags and one array of special
  characters. The scalar flag elements are named: 
c_iflag,
  
c_oflag, 
c_cflag, and
  
c_lflag. The character array is named
  
c_cc, and its maximum index is
  
NCCS.
Values of the 
c_iflag field describe the basic terminal
  input control, and are composed of following masks:
  IGNBRK 
  - /* ignore BREAK condition */
 
  BRKINT 
  - /* map BREAK to SIGINTR */
 
  IGNPAR 
  - /* ignore (discard) parity errors */
 
  PARMRK 
  - /* mark parity and framing errors */
 
  INPCK 
  - /* enable checking of parity errors */
 
  ISTRIP 
  - /* strip 8th bit off chars */
 
  INLCR 
  - /* map NL into CR */
 
  IGNCR 
  - /* ignore CR */
 
  ICRNL 
  - /* map CR to NL (ala CRMOD) */
 
  IXON 
  - /* enable output flow control */
 
  IXOFF 
  - /* enable input flow control */
 
  IXANY 
  - /* any char will restart after stop */
 
  IMAXBEL 
  - /* ring bell on input queue full */
 
 
In the context of asynchronous serial data transmission, a break condition is
  defined as a sequence of zero-valued bits that continues for more than the
  time to send one byte. The entire sequence of zero-valued bits is interpreted
  as a single break condition, even if it continues for a time equivalent to
  more than one byte. In contexts other than asynchronous serial data
  transmission the definition of a break condition is implementation defined.
If 
IGNBRK is set, a break condition 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 flushes 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’, or if 
PARMRK
  is set, as ‘
\377’,
  ‘
\0’,
  ‘
\0’.
If 
IGNPAR is set, a byte with a framing or parity error
  (other than break) is ignored.
If 
PARMRK is set, and 
IGNPAR is
  not set, a byte with a framing or parity error (other than break) is given to
  the application as the three-character sequence
  ‘
\377’,
  ‘
\0’, X, where
  ‘
\377’,
  ‘
\0’ is a two-character flag preceding
  each sequence and X is the data of the character received in error. To avoid
  ambiguity in this case, if 
ISTRIP is not set, a valid
  character of ‘
\377’ is given to the
  application as ‘
\377’,
  ‘
\377’. If neither
  
PARMRK nor 
IGNPAR is set, a
  framing or parity error (other than break) is given to the application as a
  single character ‘
\0’.
If 
INPCK is set, input parity checking is enabled. If
  
INPCK is not set, input parity checking is disabled,
  allowing output parity generation without input parity errors. Note that
  whether input parity checking is enabled or disabled is independent of whether
  parity detection is enabled or disabled (see
  
Control Modes). If parity detection is
  enabled but input parity checking is disabled, the hardware to which the
  terminal is connected recognizes the parity bit, but the terminal special file
  does not check whether this bit is set correctly or not.
If 
ISTRIP is set, valid input bytes 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). If 
IGNCR is not set
  and 
ICRNL is set, a received
  
CR character is translated into a
  
NL character.
If 
IXON is set, start/stop output control is enabled. A
  received 
STOP character suspends output and a received
  
START character restarts output. If
  
IXANY is also set, then any character may restart
  output. When 
IXON is set,
  
START and 
STOP characters are
  not read, but merely perform flow control functions. When
  
IXON is not set, the 
START and
  
STOP characters are read.
If 
IXOFF is set, start/stop input control is enabled.
  The system shall transmit one or more 
STOP characters,
  which are intended to cause the terminal device to stop transmitting data, as
  needed to prevent the input queue from overflowing and causing the undefined
  behavior described in
  
Input Processing and
  Reading Data, and shall transmit one or more 
START
  characters, which are intended to cause the terminal device to resume
  transmitting data, as soon as the device can continue transmitting data
  without risk of overflowing the input queue. The precise conditions under
  which 
STOP and START characters are transmitted are
  implementation defined.
If 
IMAXBEL is set and the input queue is full,
  subsequent input shall cause an ASCII 
BEL character to
  be transmitted to the output queue.
The initial input control value after 
open() is implementation
  defined.
Output Modes¶
Values of the 
c_oflag field describe the basic terminal
  output control, and are composed of the following masks:
  OPOST 
  - /* enable following output processing */
 
  ONLCR 
  - /* map NL to CR-NL (ala 
CRMOD)
    */ 
  OCRNL 
  - /* map CR to NL */
 
  TABDLY 
  - /* tab delay mask */
 
  TAB0 
  - /* no tab delay and expansion */
 
  TAB3 
  - /* expand tabs to spaces */
 
  ONOEOT 
  - /* discard 
EOT's
      ‘^D’ on output) */ 
  ONOCR 
  - /* do not transmit CRs on column 0 */
 
  ONLRET 
  - /* on the terminal NL performs the CR function */
 
 
If 
OPOST is set, the remaining flag masks are
  interpreted as follows; otherwise characters are transmitted without change.
If 
ONLCR is set, newlines are translated to carriage
  return, linefeeds.
If 
OCRNL is set, carriage returns are translated to
  newlines.
The 
TABDLY bits specify the tab delay. The
  
c_oflag is masked with 
TABDLY
  and compared with the values 
TAB0 or
  
TAB3. If 
TAB3 is set, tabs are
  expanded to the appropriate number of spaces (assuming 8 column tab stops).
If 
ONOEOT is set, ASCII 
EOT's
  are discarded on output.
If 
ONOCR is set, no CR character is transmitted when at
  column 0 (first position).
If 
ONLRET is set, the NL character is assumed to do the
  carriage-return function; the column pointer will be set to 0.
Control Modes¶
Values of the 
c_cflag field describe the basic terminal
  hardware control, and are composed of the following masks. Not all values
  specified are supported by all hardware.
  CSIZE 
  - /* character size mask */
 
  CS5 
  - /* 5 bits (pseudo) */
 
  CS6 
  - /* 6 bits */
 
  CS7 
  - /* 7 bits */
 
  CS8 
  - /* 8 bits */
 
  CSTOPB 
  - /* send 2 stop bits */
 
  CREAD 
  - /* enable receiver */
 
  PARENB 
  - /* parity enable */
 
  PARODD 
  - /* odd parity, else even */
 
  HUPCL 
  - /* hang up on last close */
 
  CLOCAL 
  - /* ignore modem status lines */
 
  CCTS_OFLOW 
  - /* 
CTS flow control of output
    */ 
  CRTSCTS 
  - /* same as 
CCTS_OFLOW */ 
  CRTS_IFLOW 
  - /* RTS flow control of input */
 
  MDMBUF 
  - /* flow control output via Carrier */
 
 
The 
CSIZE bits specify the byte size in bits for both
  transmission and reception. The 
c_cflag is masked with
  
CSIZE and compared with the values
  
CS5, 
CS6,
  
CS7, or 
CS8. This size does
  not include the parity bit, if any. If 
CSTOPB is set,
  two stop bits are used, otherwise one stop bit. For example, at 110 baud, two
  stop bits are normally used.
If 
CREAD is set, the receiver is enabled. Otherwise, no
  character is received. Not all hardware supports this bit. In fact, this flag
  is pretty silly and if it were not part of the 
termios
  specification it would be omitted.
If 
PARENB is set, parity generation and detection are
  enabled and a parity bit is added to each character. If parity is enabled,
  
PARODD specifies odd parity if set, otherwise even
  parity is used.
If 
HUPCL is set, the modem control lines for the port
  are lowered when the last process with the port open closes the port or the
  process terminates. The modem connection is broken.
If 
CLOCAL is set, a connection does not depend on the
  state of the modem status lines. If 
CLOCAL is clear,
  the modem status lines are monitored.
Under normal circumstances, a call to the 
open() function
  waits for the modem connection to complete. However, if the
  
O_NONBLOCK flag is set or if
  
CLOCAL has been set, the 
open()
  function returns immediately without waiting for the connection.
The 
CCTS_OFLOW (
CRTSCTS) flag is
  currently unused.
If 
MDMBUF is set then output flow control is controlled
  by the state of Carrier Detect.
If the object for which the control modes are set is not an asynchronous serial
  connection, some of the modes may be ignored; for example, if an attempt is
  made to set the baud rate on a network connection to a terminal on another
  host, the baud rate may or may not be set on the connection between that
  terminal and the machine it is directly connected to.
Local Modes¶
Values of the 
c_lflag field describe the control of
  various functions, and are composed of the following masks.
  ECHOKE 
  - /* visual erase for line kill */
 
  ECHOE 
  - /* visually erase chars */
 
  ECHO 
  - /* enable echoing */
 
  ECHONL 
  - /* echo 
NL even if
      ECHO is off */ 
  ECHOPRT 
  - /* visual erase mode for hardcopy */
 
  ECHOCTL 
  - /* echo control chars as ^(Char) */
 
  ISIG 
  - /* enable signals 
INTR,
      QUIT, [D]SUSP */ 
  ICANON 
  - /* canonicalize input lines */
 
  ALTWERASE 
  - /* use alternate 
WERASE algorithm
      */ 
  IEXTEN 
  - /* enable 
DISCARD and
      LNEXT */ 
  EXTPROC 
  - /* external processing */
 
  TOSTOP 
  - /* stop background jobs from output */
 
  FLUSHO 
  - /* output being flushed (state) */
 
  NOKERNINFO 
  - /* no kernel output from 
VSTATUS
    */ 
  PENDIN 
  - /* XXX retype pending input (state) */
 
  NOFLSH 
  - /* don't flush after interrupt */
 
 
If 
ECHO is set, input characters are echoed back to the
  terminal. If 
ECHO is not set, input characters are not
  echoed.
If 
ECHOE and 
ICANON are set, the
  
ERASE character causes the terminal to erase the last
  character in the current line from the display, if possible. If there is no
  character to erase, an implementation may echo an indication that this was the
  case or do nothing.
If 
ECHOK and 
ICANON are set, the
  
KILL character causes the current line to be discarded
  and the system echoes the ‘
\n’ character
  after the 
KILL character.
If 
ECHOKE and 
ICANON are set,
  the 
KILL character causes the current line to be
  discarded and the system causes the terminal to erase the line from the
  display.
If 
ECHOPRT and 
ICANON are set,
  the system assumes that the display is a printing device and prints a
  backslash and the erased characters when processing
  
ERASE characters, followed by a forward slash.
If 
ECHOCTL is set, the system echoes control characters
  in a visible fashion using a caret followed by the control character.
If 
ALTWERASE is set, the system uses an alternative
  algorithm for determining what constitutes a word when processing
  
WERASE characters (see
  
WERASE).
If 
ECHONL and 
ICANON are set,
  the ‘
\n’ character echoes even if
  
ECHO is not set.
If 
ICANON is set, canonical processing is enabled. This
  enables the erase and kill edit functions, and the assembly of input
  characters into lines delimited by 
NL,
  
EOF, and 
EOL, as described in
  
Canonical Mode Input
  Processing.
If 
ICANON is not set, read requests are satisfied
  directly from the input queue. A read is not satisfied until at least
  
MIN bytes have been received or the timeout value
  
TIME expired between bytes. The time value represents
  tenths of seconds. See
  
Noncanonical Mode
  Input Processing for more details.
If 
ISIG is set, each input character is checked against
  the special control characters 
INTR,
  
QUIT, and 
SUSP (job control
  only). If an input character matches one of these control characters, the
  function associated with that character is performed. If
  
ISIG is not set, no checking is done. Thus these
  special input functions are possible only if 
ISIG is
  set.
If 
IEXTEN is set, implementation-defined functions are
  recognized from the input data. How 
IEXTEN being set
  interacts with 
ICANON, 
ISIG,
  
IXON, or 
IXOFF is
  implementation defined. If 
IEXTEN is not set, then
  implementation-defined functions are not recognized, and the corresponding
  input characters are not processed as described for
  
ICANON, 
ISIG,
  
IXON, and 
IXOFF.
If 
NOFLSH is set, the normal flush of the input and
  output queues associated with the 
INTR,
  
QUIT, and 
SUSP characters are
  not be done.
If 
TOSTOP is set, the signal
  
SIGTTOU is sent to the process group of a process that
  tries to write to its controlling terminal if it is not in the foreground
  process group for that terminal. This signal, by default, stops the members of
  the process group. 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 and the 
SIGTTOU signal is not sent.
If 
NOKERNINFO is set, the kernel does not produce a
  status message when processing 
STATUS characters (see
  
STATUS).
Special Control Characters¶
The special control characters values are defined by the array
  
c_cc. This table lists the array index, the
  corresponding special character, and the system default value. For an accurate
  list of the system defaults, consult the header file
  
<sys/ttydefaults.h>.
  
    
    
  
  
    | Index
      Name | 
    Special Character | 
    Default Value | 
  
  
    VEOF | 
    EOF | 
    ^D | 
  
  
    VEOL | 
    EOL | 
    _POSIX_VDISABLE | 
  
  
    VEOL2 | 
    EOL2 | 
    _POSIX_VDISABLE | 
  
  
    VERASE | 
    ERASE | 
    ^?
      ‘\177’ | 
  
  
    VWERASE | 
    WERASE | 
    ^W | 
  
  
    VKILL | 
    KILL | 
    ^U | 
  
  
    VREPRINT | 
    REPRINT | 
    ^R | 
  
  
    VINTR | 
    INTR | 
    ^C | 
  
  
    VQUIT | 
    QUIT | 
    ^\\
      ‘\34’ | 
  
  
    VSUSP | 
    SUSP | 
    ^Z | 
  
  
    VDSUSP | 
    DSUSP | 
    ^Y | 
  
  
    VSTART | 
    START | 
    ^Q | 
  
  
    VSTOP | 
    STOP | 
    ^S | 
  
  
    VLNEXT | 
    LNEXT | 
    ^V | 
  
  
    VDISCARD | 
    DISCARD | 
    ^O | 
  
  
    VMIN | 
    --- | 
    1 | 
  
  
    VTIME | 
    --- | 
    0 | 
  
  
    VSTATUS | 
    STATUS | 
    ^T | 
  
If the value of one of the changeable special control characters (see
  
Special Characters) is
  
{_POSIX_VDISABLE}, that function is disabled; that is,
  no input data is recognized as the disabled special character. If
  
ICANON is not set, the value of
  
{_POSIX_VDISABLE} has no special meaning for the
  
VMIN and 
VTIME entries of the
  
c_cc array.
The initial values of the flags and control characters after
  
open() is set according to the values in the header
  
<sys/ttydefaults.h>.
SEE ALSO¶
stty(1), 
tcgetsid(3),
  
tcsendbreak(3), 
tcsetattr(3),
  
tcsetsid(3), 
tty(4)