Undocumented TTY driver features

Guy Harris guy at sun.uucp
Mon Nov 18 07:29:35 AEST 1985


The S3 and S5 manuals, and the S5 Interface Definition, tell you that the
TCXONC terminal "ioctl" call can be used to suspend output and restart it.
What they do *not* tell you is that it can also be used to suspend *input*
and restart it - i.e., that they can be used to control the blocking and
unblocking of input that the IXOFF mode (equivalent of TANDEM mode in
V7/4.xBSD) enables.  Add the following to the description of TCXONC:

	If "arg" is 2, suspend input; if 3, restart suspended input.

	Guy Harris



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