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Re: [patch] termios.3: Add missing details on behaviour of PARMRK


On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 10:38 PM, Olivier TARTROU
<olivier.tartrou@gmail.com> wrote:
> For a serial terminal, with a specific configuration, input bytes with
> value 0377 are passed to the program as two bytes, 0377 0377.
>
> This (correct) behaviour is described in the documentation of the GNU
> C Library (https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Input-Modes.html#Input-Modes)
> but not in the termios.3 man page.
>
> Problematic configuration: INPCK set, IGNPAR not set, PARMRK set,
> ISTRIP not set.
>
> This man page problem affects several users. Examples:
> * http://sourceforge.net/p/ftdi-usb-sio/mailman/message/4079724/
> * http://mailman.uclinux.org/pipermail/uclinux-dev/2006-November/040984.html
> * ...
>
> The patch below corrects this problem. This patch applies to release 4.02.
>
>
> --- old/termios.3       2015-11-04 20:32:56.117200840 +0100
> +++ new/termios.3       2015-11-04 23:31:23.165191198 +0100
> @@ -36,6 +36,8 @@
>  .\"     Added a section on canonical and noncanonical mode.
>  .\"     Enhanced the discussion of "raw" mode for cfmakeraw().
>  .\"     Document CMSPAR.
> +.\" 2015-11-04, Olivier TARTROU <olivier.tartrou@gmail.com>:
> +.\"     Reworked description of PARMRK from
> https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Input-Modes.html#Input-Modes
>  .\"
>  .TH TERMIOS 3 2015-03-02 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
>  .SH NAME
> @@ -133,8 +135,17 @@
>  Ignore framing errors and parity errors.
>  .TP
>  .B PARMRK
> -If \fBIGNPAR\fP is not set, prefix a character with a parity error or
> -framing error with \\377 \\0.
> +If this bit is set, input bytes with parity or framing errors are
> +marked when passed to the program. This bit is meaningful only when
> +\fBINPCK\fP is set and \fBIGNPAR\fP is not set.
> +The way erroneous bytes are marked is with two preceding bytes,
> +\\377 and \\0. Thus, the program actually reads three bytes for one
> +erroneous byte received from the terminal.
> +If a valid byte has the value \\377, and \fBISTRIP\fP (see below) is
> +not set, the program might confuse it with the prefix that marks a
> +parity error. So a valid byte \\377 is passed to the program as two
> +bytes, \\377 \\377, in this case.
> +
>  If neither \fBIGNPAR\fP nor \fBPARMRK\fP
>  is set, read a character with a parity error or framing error
>  as \\0.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Olivier TARTROU


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