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CFGETISPEED(3P) POSIX Programmer's Manual CFGETISPEED(3P)

PROLOG top

   This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual.  The
   Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the
   corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or
   the interface may not be implemented on Linux.

NAME top

   cfgetispeed — get input baud rate

SYNOPSIS top

   #include <termios.h>

   speed_t cfgetispeed(const struct termios *_termiosp_);

DESCRIPTION top

   The _cfgetispeed_() function shall extract the input baud rate from
   the **termios** structure to which the _termiosp_ argument points.

   This function shall return exactly the value in the **termios** data
   structure, without interpretation.

RETURN VALUE top

   Upon successful completion, _cfgetispeed_() shall return a value of
   type **speed_t** representing the input baud rate.

ERRORS top

   No errors are defined.

   _The following sections are informative._

EXAMPLES top

   None.

APPLICATION USAGE top

   None.

RATIONALE top

   The term ``baud'' is used historically here, but is not
   technically correct. This is properly ``bits per second'', which
   may not be the same as baud. However, the term is used because of
   the historical usage and understanding.

   The _cfgetospeed_(), _cfgetispeed_(), _cfsetospeed_(), and _cfsetispeed_()
   functions do not take arguments as numbers, but rather as symbolic
   names. There are two reasons for this:

    1. Historically, numbers were not used because of the way the
       rate was stored in the data structure. This is retained even
       though a function is now used.

    2. More importantly, only a limited set of possible rates is at
       all portable, and this constrains the application to that set.

   There is nothing to prevent an implementation accepting as an
   extension a number (such as 126), and since the encoding of the
   Bxxx symbols is not specified, this can be done to avoid
   introducing ambiguity.

   Setting the input baud rate to zero was a mechanism to allow for
   split baud rates. Clarifications in this volume of POSIX.1‐2017
   have made it possible to determine whether split rates are
   supported and to support them without having to treat zero as a
   special case. Since this functionality is also confusing, it has
   been declared obsolescent.  The 0 argument referred to is the
   literal constant 0, not the symbolic constant B0. This volume of
   POSIX.1‐2017 does not preclude B0 from being defined as the value
   0; in fact, implementations would likely benefit from the two
   being equivalent. This volume of POSIX.1‐2017 does not fully
   specify whether the previous _cfsetispeed_() value is retained after
   a _tcgetattr_() as the actual value or as zero. Therefore,
   conforming applications should always set both the input speed and
   output speed when setting either.

   In historical implementations, the baud rate information is
   traditionally kept in **c_cflag**.  Applications should be written to
   presume that this might be the case (and thus not blindly copy
   **c_cflag**), but not to rely on it in case it is in some other field
   of the structure. Setting the **c_cflag** field absolutely after
   setting a baud rate is a non-portable action because of this. In
   general, the unused parts of the flag fields might be used by the
   implementation and should not be blindly copied from the
   descriptions of one terminal device to another.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS top

   None.

SEE ALSO top

   [cfgetospeed(3p)](../man3/cfgetospeed.3p.html), [cfsetispeed(3p)](../man3/cfsetispeed.3p.html), [cfsetospeed(3p)](../man3/cfsetospeed.3p.html), [tcgetattr(3p)](../man3/tcgetattr.3p.html)

   The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, _Chapter 11_, _General_
   _Terminal Interface_, [termios.h(0p)](../man0/termios.h.0p.html)

COPYRIGHT top

   Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic
   form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information
   Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The
   Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright
   (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,
   Inc and The Open Group.  In the event of any discrepancy between
   this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard,
   the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee
   document. The original Standard can be obtained online at
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