A/UX® System Administrator's Reference Sections 1M, 7, and 8

console(7) console(7)
(octal 027).
IOCTLS
The display responds to a large number of ioctls which affect
its behavior in many different ways. It responds to all the ioctls
defined in termio(7) in the normal manner. Since it is a streams
device, all other ioctls must be called using the streams indirect
ioctl call function, I STR. With this is passed a packet
describing the ioctl tobe executed. This packet is of type
struct strioctl and is described in sys/ stropts. h. It
has 4 fields.
ic cmd
ic len
ic timout
The command (ioctl) requested to be executed.
A pointer to any data to be read/written to by the
ioctl (parameters or returned results, for example).
The size of the data in bytes.
A timeout (how long to wait for the ioctl to
complete before returning an error); -1 means
no timeout (or wait forever).
If s is a data structure of type struct strioctl, then an
ioctl call is made using a call of the following form.
ioctl(fd, I_STR, &s)
Further examples of such calls are given later in this document.
Screen ioctls fall into three main areas: control of the keyboard,
control of the video generation hardware, and control of the
mouse. All the following ioctls, and the symbols defined with
them are defined in the include file s y s / v i de 0 • h.
Keyboard ioctls
The keyboard operates in two modes, either as an ANSI standard
keyboard generating characters in the normal manner, or in
"raw" mode where each keystroke is generated (both up and
down) and passed directly without any modification.
VIDEO RAW
February, 1990
Revision C
This ioctl puts the keyboard into
"raw" mode. The key codes returned
are the key codes directly from the keyboard
(Refer to the keyboard documentation
for a list of these.) The most
significant bit indicates whether the
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