stty(2)

NAME

stty, gtty − control device

SYNOPSIS

#include <sgtty.h>

int stty(int fildes, const struct sgttyb *argp);

int gtty(int fildes, struct sgttyb *argp);

REMARKS

These system calls are preserved for backward compatibility with Bell Version 6. They provide as close an approximation as possible to the old Version 6 functions. All new code should use the TCSETA and TCGETA ioctl() calls described in termio(7).

DESCRIPTION

For certain status settings and status inquiries about terminal devices, the functions stty() and gtty() are equivalent to

ioctl(fildes, TIOCSETP, argp)

and

ioctl(fildes, TIOCGETP, argp)

respectively; see termio(7).

RETURN VALUE

stty() returns zero if the call was successful or −1 if the file descriptor does not refer to the kind of file for which it was intended.

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