[buug] `stty 0`

Ian Zimmerman itz at speakeasy.org
Thu Aug 1 13:40:31 PDT 2002


Bob> From man stty: 0 Hang up line immediately.

Right, I guess with any numeric argument it just calls cfsetospeed(3).

man termios says

>> 	  cfsetospeed() sets the output baud rate stored in the
>> 	  termios structure pointed to by termios_p to speed, which
>> 	  must be one of these constants:

>> 		  B0
[...]
>> 		  B115200

>> 	  The zero baud rate, B0, is used to terminate the connection.
>> 	  If B0 is specified, the modem control lines shall no longer
>> 	  be asserted.  Normally, this will disconnect the line.

and my man stty mentions 

>>    Special settings:
>> 	  N      set the input and output speeds to N bauds

but not 0 explicitly.  I think I will have to try it to see if it really
works :)

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