vt_get_shift_state(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

vt_get_shift_state — shift bit state. This one's from the Kernel API Manual, and it's giving tiny-but-iconic function energy. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int vt_get_shift_state (void );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• void — no arguments, bestie. Not a single one. 🫶

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

Okay so vt_get_shift_state reports the shift bits from the keyboard state. That's the whole vibe. We have to export this to support some oddities in the vt layer — literally that's the reason, no cap. 💖

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c, plus the whole friend group:

• vt_get_leds(9)
• vt_set_led_state(9)
• vt_kbd_con_start(9)
• vt_kbd_con_stop(9)
• vt_do_diacrit(9)
• vt_do_kdskbmode(9)
• vt_do_kdskbmeta(9)
• vt_do_kdgkbmeta(9)
• vt_reset_unicode(9)
• vt_reset_keyboard(9)
• vt_get_kbd_mode_bit(9)
• vt_set_kbd_mode_bit(9)
• vt_clr_kbd_mode_bit(9)

xoxo 💋 — source ./drivers/tty/vt, dated October 2026, page vt_get_shift_state(9). Periodt. 🎀