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authorAraq <rumpf_a@web.de>2016-01-18 10:55:23 +0100
committerAraq <rumpf_a@web.de>2016-01-18 10:55:23 +0100
commit55c1f3d30ce5d2ab8745ab2b98a38a605c690a54 (patch)
treed729e8c0d7c929208c84450ad4a449e3eb32491e /lib/posix/posix.nim
parent68cbb4d2b4bc408e13fc27e6d054e3a0bb98bfb4 (diff)
parent2309975f782bf59b240e3874d5c31b4b299eca5d (diff)
downloadNim-55c1f3d30ce5d2ab8745ab2b98a38a605c690a54.tar.gz
Merge branch 'devel' of https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim into devel
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@@ -2165,6 +2165,10 @@ proc pwrite*(a1: cint, a2: pointer, a3: int, a4: Off): int {.
   importc, header: "<unistd.h>".}
 proc read*(a1: cint, a2: pointer, a3: int): int {.importc, header: "<unistd.h>".}
 proc readlink*(a1, a2: cstring, a3: int): int {.importc, header: "<unistd.h>".}
+proc ioctl*(f: FileHandle, device: uint): int {.importc: "ioctl",
+      header: "<sys/ioctl.h>", varargs, tags: [WriteIOEffect].}
+  ## A system call for device-specific input/output operations and other
+  ## operations which cannot be expressed by regular system calls
 
 proc rmdir*(a1: cstring): cint {.importc, header: "<unistd.h>".}
 proc setegid*(a1: Gid): cint {.importc, header: "<unistd.h>".}