cc_t(3type)

✨ cc_t(3type) ✨

okay bestie, pull up a chair because we're about to talk about the <termios.h> girlies 💅 this is the cc_t manual page, and it's short but it's iconic.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

cc_t, speed_t, tcflag_t — terminal special characters, baud rates, modes 🔥

📚 LIBRARY 📚

Standard C library (libc) 🫶

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <termios.h>

typedef /* ... */ cc_t;
typedef /* ... */ speed_t;
typedef /* ... */ tcflag_t;

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So here's the tea, bestie ☕ — these three typedefs each have their own lil job:

• cc_t is the one for terminal special characters ✨
• speed_t is your girl for baud rates 🦋
• tcflag_t handles the modes 👑

And the one thing they all have in common? They're all unsigned integer types. no cap, that's literally it. all three. unsigned. integers. periodt 💅

⭐ STANDARDS ⭐

POSIX.1-2024. that's the vibe check it passes 👑

🕰️ HISTORY 🕰️

It's been around since POSIX.1-1988 — so yeah, she's a legacy icon, she's been serving since before most of us were born 😭👑

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• termios(3type)
• termios(7)

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! no notes, she ate and left no crumbs 🍓

signing off from the Linux man-pages crew — that's version 6.20, dated 2026-07-02 💜🫶✨