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Terminal device control

STREAMS-based terminal subsystem

Beginning with UNIX System V Release 4, the terminal subsystem is implemented by STREAMS. The STREAMS-based terminal subsystem (see ``STREAMS-based terminal subsystem'') provides many benefits:

STREAMS-based terminal subsystem

The initial setup of the STREAMS-based terminal subsystem is handled with the ttymon(1M) command within the framework of the Service Access Facility (SAF) or the autopush facility.

The STREAMS-based terminal subsystem supports termio, the termios specification of the POSIX standard, multiple byte characters for internationalization, the interface to asynchronous hardware flow control and peripheral controllers for asynchronous terminals (see 7termio( )7 termiox(7)). BSD compatibility can also be provided by pushing the ttcompat module (see ttcompat(7)).


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