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.\" Copyright (c) 1996-1999 Whistle Communications, Inc.
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\" OF SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\" Author: Archie Cobbs <archie@FreeBSD.org>
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.\"
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\" $Whistle: ng_tty.8,v 1.5 1999/01/25 23:46:28 archie Exp $
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.\"
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.Dd December 25, 2008
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.Dt NG_TTY 4
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm ng_tty
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.Nd netgraph node type that is also a TTY hook
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In sys/types.h
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.In sys/ttycom.h
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.In netgraph/ng_tty.h
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm tty
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node type is both a netgraph node type and a TTY hook.
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.Pp
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The node has a single hook called
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.Dv hook .
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Incoming bytes received on the tty device are sent out on this hook,
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and frames received on
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.Dv hook
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are transmitted out on the tty device.
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No modification to the data is performed in either direction.
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While the hook is installed on a tty, the normal read and write
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operations are unavailable, returning
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.Er EIO .
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.Pp
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Incoming data is delivered directly to ng_tty via the tty bypass hook as a
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buffer pointer and length, this is converted to a mbuf and passed to the peer.
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.Pp
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The node supports an optional
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.Dq hot character .
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If the driver can not deliver data directly to the tty bypass hook then each
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character is input one at a time.
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If set to non-zero and bypass mode is unavailable, incoming
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data from the tty device is queued until this character is seen.
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This avoids sending lots of mbufs containing a small number of bytes,
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but introduces potentially infinite latency.
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The default hot character is 0x7e, consistent with
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.Dv hook
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being connected to a
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.Xr ng_async 4
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type node.
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The hot character has no effect on the transmission of data.
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.Sh HOOKS
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This node type supports the following hooks:
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.Bl -tag -width foobar
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.It Dv hook
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.Xr tty 4
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serial data contained in
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.Dv mbuf
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structures, with arbitrary inter-frame boundaries.
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.El
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.Sh CONTROL MESSAGES
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This node type supports the generic control messages, plus the following:
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.Bl -tag -width foo
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.It Dv NGM_TTY_SET_HOTCHAR
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This command takes an integer argument and sets the hot character
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from the lower 8 bits.
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A hot character of zero disables queueing,
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so that all received data is forwarded immediately.
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.It Dv NGM_TTY_GET_HOTCHAR
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Returns an integer containing the current hot character in the lower
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eight bits.
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.It Dv NGM_TTY_SET_TTY
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This command takes integer process ID and file descriptor of open tty
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and registers the tty hooks.
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.El
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.Sh SHUTDOWN
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This node shuts down when the corresponding device is closed.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr ioctl 2 ,
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.Xr netgraph 4 ,
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.Xr ng_async 4 ,
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.Xr tty 4 ,
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.Xr ngctl 8
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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node type was implemented in
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.Fx 4.0 .
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.Sh AUTHORS
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.An Archie Cobbs Aq archie@FreeBSD.org
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.An Andrew Thompson Aq thompsa@FreeBSD.org
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.Sh BUGS
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The serial driver code also has a notion of a
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.Dq hot character .
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Unfortunately, this value is statically defined in terms of the
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line discipline and cannot be changed.
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Therefore, if a hot character other than 0x7e (the default) is set for the
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.Nm
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node, the node has no way to convey this information to the
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serial driver, and sub-optimal performance may result.
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