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diff --git a/man/man7/termio.7 b/man/man7/termio.7 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8643ac5 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man7/termio.7 @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 2006 by Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft +.\" +.\" 28 Dec 2006 - Initial Creation +.\" +.TH termio 7 2024-05-02 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" +.SH NAME +termio \- System V terminal driver interface +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B termio +is the name of the old System V terminal driver interface. +This interface defined a +.I termio +structure used to store terminal settings, and a range of +.BR ioctl (2) +operations to get and set terminal attributes. +.P +The +.B termio +interface is now obsolete: POSIX.1-1990 standardized a modified +version of this interface, under the name +.BR termios . +The POSIX.1 data structure differs slightly from the +System V version, and POSIX.1 defined a suite of functions +to replace the various +.BR ioctl (2) +operations that existed in System V. +(This was done because +.BR ioctl (2) +was unstandardized, and its variadic third argument +does not allow argument type checking.) +.P +If you're looking for a page called "termio", then you can probably +find most of the information that you seek in either +.BR termios (3) +or +.BR ioctl_tty (2). +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR reset (1), +.BR setterm (1), +.BR stty (1), +.BR ioctl_tty (2), +.BR termios (3), +.BR tty (4) |