UNIX Systems Programming: Communication, Concurrency and Threads

6.9 Exercise: The stty Command

Do the following to become more familiar with terminal control.

1. Read the man page on struct termios .

2. Execute stty -a and try to understand the different fields.

3. Compare the facilities provided by the specific terminal calls to those provided by use of ioctl . Read the struct termios information in Section 7 of the man pages for additional information.

Read the man page for stty and write your own program modeled after it.