1.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" %sccs.include.redist.man% 5.\" 6.\" @(#)stty.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 06/04/93 7.\" 8.Dd 9.Dt STTY 3 10.Os BSD 4.2 11.Sh NAME 12.Nm stty , 13.Nm gtty 14.Nd set and get terminal state (defunct) 15.Sh SYNOPSIS 16.Fd #include <sgtty.h> 17.Fn stty "int fd" "struct sgttyb *buf" 18.Fn gtty "int fd" "struct sgttyb *buf" 19.Sh DESCRIPTION 20.Bf -symbolic 21These interfaces are obsoleted by ioctl(2). 22They are available from the compatibility library, libcompat. 23.Ef 24.Pp 25The 26.Fn stty 27function 28sets the state of the terminal associated with 29.Fa fd . 30The 31.Fn gtty 32function 33retrieves the state of the terminal associated 34with 35.Fa fd . 36To set the state of a terminal the call must have 37write permission. 38.Pp 39The 40.Fn stty 41call is actually 42.Ql ioctl(fd, TIOCSETP, buf) , 43while 44the 45.Fn gtty 46call is 47.Ql ioctl(fd, TIOCGETP, buf) . 48See 49.Xr ioctl 2 50and 51.Xr tty 4 52for an explanation. 53.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 54If the call is successful 0 is returned, otherwise \-1 is 55returned and the global variable 56.Va errno 57contains the reason for the failure. 58.Sh SEE ALSO 59.Xr ioctl 2 , 60.Xr tty 4 61.Sh HISTORY 62The 63.Fn stty 64and 65.Fn gtty 66functions appeared in 67.Bx 4.2 . 68