Serial communication, detecting parity bits

Hello!

I'm in the process of writing some code that will use RS-232 and a somewhat old protocol to speak to some external hardware. The protocol specifies that the first byte of each protocol packet will have its wakeup bit or parity bit set. I need to find these marked bytes in order to determine where each packet starts.

This confuses me a bit. All serial communication programming I have done so far have beem blissfully unaware of parity bits, stop bits and so forth. As I understand it these are abstracted away by read(), open(), tcsetattr(), etc.

My question is this: Is there some way that I can figure out if the wakeup or parity bit was set on a specific byte in the stream that I have read from the serial port?

Regards,
Mattias
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