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stty: support B460800 and B921600 baud rates

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Since Oct 13, 2026.

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2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
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72/100
Issue type
Feature
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Clearly specified
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Active
Tech stack
rust

Research direction

Start at the stty implementation and inspect its existing baud-rate mapping. Verify that nix::sys::termios exposes B460800 and B921600 after nix pull request 2815 lands, then map 460800 and 921600 to those constants. Done means both rates are accepted where the platform provides them.

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Description

awaiting upstream U - stty

stty should support the 460800 and 921600 baud rates.

This currently depends on https://github.com/nix-rust/nix/pull/2815, which adds B460800 and B921600 to nix::sys::termios on platforms where libc provides them.

Once that lands, uutils should map:

  • 460800 → B460800
  • 921600 → B921600
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