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authorDominik Picheta <dominikpicheta@googlemail.com>2016-01-17 22:20:32 +0000
committerDominik Picheta <dominikpicheta@googlemail.com>2016-01-17 22:20:32 +0000
commit4a3e63e32fc055bf9f392b65a14998e6ba082176 (patch)
tree785245b2d969a5b8d5e02269a003c55c5c7d5953 /lib
parent9fad7c4c2bb152a60ae0cb42ed97a4027aca308f (diff)
parent2befe48e4d177dfc047fb56c762d638fdc47cadb (diff)
downloadNim-4a3e63e32fc055bf9f392b65a14998e6ba082176.tar.gz
Merge pull request #3728 from xyz32/devel
Add support for ioctl.
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-rw-r--r--lib/posix/posix.nim4
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diff --git a/lib/posix/posix.nim b/lib/posix/posix.nim
index 5f1dfcfcd..40b48f992 100644
--- a/lib/posix/posix.nim
+++ b/lib/posix/posix.nim
@@ -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>".}