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diff --git a/testsuites/libtests/termios/README b/testsuites/libtests/termios/README index 6991d80309..2515b2994f 100644 --- a/testsuites/libtests/termios/README +++ b/testsuites/libtests/termios/README @@ -4,6 +4,53 @@ These tests are brought to you by the letter `q'. +When you start the test, you should see: + + You have the following choices: + 1 - Reset the struct termios + 2 - Look at the current termios setting + 3 - Change the line characteristics + 4 - Test canonical input + 5 - Test raw input + 9 - Exit + Enter your choice (1 to 5 or 9, followed by a carriage return): + +The individual tests are briefly described below: + + +1. Reset the struct termios. + +Included just in case you get into trouble. More than likely, if you are in +trouble, neither input nor output are likely to work and this won't help. But +hey, it should give you some warm fuzzy feeling that its there... + + +2. Look at the current termios setting + +Dumps the current state of the termios settings in hex and with symbolic flag +names. + + +3. Change the line characteristics + +Allows you to change the line speed, parity, number of data bits and number of +stop bits. You must supply a delay before the change takes effect. This gives +you time to switch your terminal settings to continue with the test. + +WARNING: Minicom under Linux gets extremely unhappy (as does the /dev/ttyS? +underlying devices) if you change the line characteristics and do not make the +corresponding change in the terminal emulator. + + +4. Test canonical input + +Simple test of canonical or cooked input mode. Try typing some tabs and/or control characters and make sure that you can backspace over them properly. + + +5. Test raw input + +The line is placed into raw mode and four separate test are done: + VMIN=0, VTIME=0 Each letter you type should produce a line of output. The `count' should be quite large, since (as you correctly @@ -23,18 +70,19 @@ VMIN=5, VTIME=0 the test. VMIN=5, VTIME=20 Type a character. Two seconds later a line should be printed. - Count should be 1. Type a character, and another within 2 -seconds. - Two seconds after last character (or right after the 5th -character) + Count should be 1. Type a character, and another within 2 seconds. + Two seconds after last character (or right after the 5th character) a line should be printed. Type a `q' as the first character of a group to finish the test. - + + +9. Exit + +Gets you out of the test. + + Clear??? -Also, when testing the cooked mode input, try typing some tabs -and/or control characters and make sure that you can backspace over -them properly. --- Eric Norum @@ -43,3 +91,9 @@ Saskatchewan Accelerator Laboratory University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, Canada. +Charles-Antoine Gauthier +Software Engineering Group +Institute for Information Technology +National Research Council of Canada +charles.gauthier@nrc.ca + |