[PATCH v4] linux/termio: remove <termio.h> and struct termio

H. Peter Anvin hpa@zytor.com
Fri Apr 25 04:49:47 GMT 2025


On 4/15/25 15:57, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> The <termio.h> interface is absolutely ancient: it was obsoleted by
> <termios.h> already in the first version of POSIX (1988) and thus
> predates the very first version of Linux. Unfortunately, some constant
> macros are used both by <termio.h> and <termios.h>; particularly
> problematic is the baud rate constants since the termio interface
> *requires* that the baud rate is set via an enumeration as part of
> c_cflag.
> 
> In preparation of revamping the termios interface to support the
> arbitrary baud rate capability that the Linux kernel has supported
> since 2008, remove <termio.h> in the hope that no one still uses this
> archaic interface.
> 
> Note that there is no actual code in glibc to support termio: it is
> purely an unabstracted ioctl() interface.
> 
> [ v4: fix botched patch ]
> [ v3: rebase onto current master ceeffd970c56893885cbf8382ae34b015f177850 ]
> [ v2: remove separate struct termio definitions for mips and sparc ]

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	-hpa



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