[issue8519] [patch] doc: termios and ioctl reference links

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[issue8519] [patch] doc: termios and ioctl reference links

anatoly techtonik added the comment: I do not mind if you include a better link with ioctl constants explained or have ideas for examples. I hope you agree the ioctl(2) man page contains much less useful information than http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man4/tty_ioctl.4.html

[issue8519] [patch] doc: termios and ioctl reference links

Georg Brandl added the comment: ioctl(2) usually has "see also" entries that list the available ioctls, such as ioctl_list on linux. If you want to link to examples like getting console size, the manpage isn't very helpful either, since you have to figure out how exactly to call ioctl. Link

[issue8519] [patch] doc: termios and ioctl reference links

anatoly techtonik added the comment: Éric, thanks, attached reStructured patch. Georg, ioctl(2) is useless, because it doesn't contain the information people need in addition to Python manual, i.e. various examples (like how to get console size) and constants (like TIOCGWINSZ) that are hard t

[issue8519] [patch] doc: termios and ioctl reference links

Georg Brandl added the comment: The POSIX reference is OK; I'm hesitant to put a Linux-specific reference in though. Also, ioctls are not limited to tty operations. IMO a :manpage:`ioctl(2)` would suffice. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue8519] [patch] doc: termios and ioctl reference links

Éric Araujo added the comment: Note that there can be any whitespace in reST markup, e.g. you can put a newline betweeen “`thing” and “`_”, thus avoiding too long lines. I think you can put a newline in a “” too, they will be removed. Regards -- nosy: +merwok ___

[issue8519] [patch] doc: termios and ioctl reference links

New submission from anatoly techtonik : The patch adds link to reference with various flags for termios functions and fcntl.ioctl call. -- assignee: georg.brandl components: Documentation files: .reference-termios-specification-for-flags.diff keywords: patch messages: 104094 nosy: g