Cbreak mode

cbreak mode (sometimes called rare mode) is a mode of a terminal or pseudo terminal character device in Unix-like systems, between raw mode and cooked mode. Unlike cooked mode it works with single characters at a time, rather than forcing a wait for a whole line and then feeding the line in all at once. Yet unlike raw mode, keystrokes like abort (usually Control-C) are still processed by the terminal and will interrupt the program.

See also

* Raw mode
* Cooked mode
* Terminal emulator
* Serial communications
* Chapter of the "Wikibook"
* Command and Data modes

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