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Input Modes
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   This section describes the terminal attribute flags that control
fairly low-level aspects of input processing: handling of parity errors,
break signals, flow control, and <RET> and <LFD> characters.

   All of these flags are bits in the `c_iflag' member of the `struct
termios' structure.  The member is an integer, and you change flags
using the operators `&', `|' and `^'.  Don't try to specify the entire
value for `c_iflag'--instead, change only specific flags and leave the
rest untouched (Note: Setting Modes).

 - Macro: tcflag_t INPCK
     If this bit is set, input parity checking is enabled.  If it is
     not set, no checking at all is done for parity errors on input; the
     characters are simply passed through to the application.

     Parity checking on input processing is independent of whether
     parity detection and generation on the underlying terminal
     hardware is enabled; see Note: Control Modes.  For example, you
     could clear the `INPCK' input mode flag and set the `PARENB'
     control mode flag to ignore parity errors on input, but still
     generate parity on output.

     If this bit is set, what happens when a parity error is detected
     depends on whether the `IGNPAR' or `PARMRK' bits are set.  If
     neither of these bits are set, a byte with a parity error is
     passed to the application as a `'\0'' character.

 - Macro: tcflag_t IGNPAR
     If this bit is set, any byte with a framing or parity error is
     ignored.  This is only useful if `INPCK' is also set.

 - Macro: tcflag_t PARMRK
     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 `INPCK' is set and `IGNPAR' 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 `0377', and `ISTRIP' (see below) is
     not set, the program might confuse it with the prefix that marks a
     parity error.  So a valid byte `0377' is passed to the program as
     two bytes, `0377' `0377', in this case.

 - Macro: tcflag_t ISTRIP
     If this bit is set, valid input bytes are stripped to seven bits;
     otherwise, all eight bits are available for programs to read.

 - Macro: tcflag_t IGNBRK
     If this bit is set, break conditions are ignored.

     A "break condition" is defined in the context of asynchronous
     serial data transmission as a series of zero-value bits longer
     than a single byte.

 - Macro: tcflag_t BRKINT
     If this bit is set and `IGNBRK' is not set, a break condition
     clears the terminal input and output queues and raises a `SIGINT'
     signal for the foreground process group associated with the
     terminal.

     If neither `BRKINT' nor `IGNBRK' are set, a break condition is
     passed to the application as a single `'\0'' character if `PARMRK'
     is not set, or otherwise as a three-character sequence `'\377'',
     `'\0'', `'\0''.

 - Macro: tcflag_t IGNCR
     If this bit is set, carriage return characters (`'\r'') are
     discarded on input.  Discarding carriage return may be useful on
     terminals that send both carriage return and linefeed when you
     type the <RET> key.

 - Macro: tcflag_t ICRNL
     If this bit is set and `IGNCR' is not set, carriage return
     characters (`'\r'') received as input are passed to the
     application as newline characters (`'\n'').

 - Macro: tcflag_t INLCR
     If this bit is set, newline characters (`'\n'') received as input
     are passed to the application as carriage return characters
     (`'\r'').

 - Macro: tcflag_t IXOFF
     If this bit is set, start/stop control on input is enabled.  In
     other words, the computer sends STOP and START characters as
     necessary to prevent input from coming in faster than programs are
     reading it.  The idea is that the actual terminal hardware that is
     generating the input data responds to a STOP character by
     suspending transmission, and to a START character by resuming
     transmission.  Note: Start/Stop Characters.

 - Macro: tcflag_t IXON
     If this bit is set, start/stop control on output is enabled.  In
     other words, if the computer receives a STOP character, it
     suspends output until a START character is received.  In this
     case, the STOP and START characters are never passed to the
     application program.  If this bit is not set, then START and STOP
     can be read as ordinary characters.  Note: Start/Stop Characters.

 - Macro: tcflag_t IXANY
     If this bit is set, any input character restarts output when
     output has been suspended with the STOP character.  Otherwise,
     only the START character restarts output.

     This is a BSD extension; it exists only on BSD systems and the GNU
     system.

 - Macro: tcflag_t IMAXBEL
     If this bit is set, then filling up the terminal input buffer
     sends a BEL character (code `007') to the terminal to ring the
     bell.

     This is a BSD extension.