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stty, gtty \- set and get terminal state (defunct)
This interface is obsoleted by ioctl(2).
sets the state of the terminal associated with
retrieves the state of the terminal associated
To set the state of a terminal the call must have
call is actually ``ioctl(fd, TIOCSETP, buf)'', while
call is ``ioctl(fd, TIOCGETP, buf)''.
If the call is successful 0 is returned, otherwise \-1 is
returned and the global variable
contains the reason for the failure.