Add an explicitly numeric interface for baudrate setting. For glibc,
this only announces what is a fair accompli, but this is a plausible
way forward for standardization, and may be possible to infill on
non-compliant systems. The POSIX committee has stated:
[https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1916#c7135]
A future version of this standard is expected to add at least
the following symbolic constants for use as values of objects
of type speed_t: B57600, B115200, B230400, B460800, and
B921600.
Implementations are encouraged to propose additional
interfaces which will make it possible to set and query a
wider range of speeds than just those enumerated by the
constants beginning with B. If a set of common interfaces
emerges between several implementations, a future version of
this standard will likely add those interfaces.
This is exactly that interface.
The use of the term "baud" is due to the need to have a term
contrasting "speed", and it is already well established as a legacy
term -- including in the names of the legacy Bxxx
constants. Futhermore, it *is* valid from the point of view that the
termios interface fundamentally emulates an RS-232 serial port as far
as the application software is concerned.
The documentation states that for the current version of glibc,
speed_t == baud_t, but explicitly declares that this may not be the
case in the future.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
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