From a6639d09799c5152b7226b032681b9836469b4d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 15:17:51 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] termios.3: Add a description of STATUS character Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man3/termios.3 | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/man3/termios.3 b/man3/termios.3 index 24a3e42b9..a827da694 100644 --- a/man3/termios.3 +++ b/man3/termios.3 @@ -619,6 +619,12 @@ is set, and then not passed as input. .B VSTATUS (not in POSIX; not supported under Linux; status request: 024, DC4, Ctrl-T). +Status character (STATUS). +Display status information at terminal, +including state of foreground process and amount of CPU time it has consumed. +Also sends a +.BR SIGINFO +signal (not supported on Linux) to the foreground process group. .LP An individual terminal special character can be disabled by setting the value of the corresponding