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-- GNAT LIBRARY COMPONENTS --
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-- G N A T . T T Y --
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-- S p e c --
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-- Copyright (C) 2002-2011, AdaCore --
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-- GNAT is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under --
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-- This package provides control over pseudo terminals (ttys)
-- This package is only supported on unix systems. See function TTY_Supported
-- to test dynamically whether other functions of this package can be called.
with System;
with GNAT.OS_Lib;
package GNAT.TTY is
type TTY_Handle is private;
-- Handle for a tty descriptor
function TTY_Supported return Boolean;
-- If True, the other functions of this package can be called. Otherwise,
-- all functions in this package will raise Program_Error if called.
procedure Allocate_TTY (Handle : out TTY_Handle);
-- Allocate a new tty
procedure Reset_TTY (Handle : TTY_Handle);
-- Reset settings of a given tty
procedure Close_TTY (Handle : in out TTY_Handle);
-- Close a given tty
function TTY_Name (Handle : TTY_Handle) return String;
-- Return the external name of a tty. The name depends on the tty handling
-- on the given target. It will typically look like: "/dev/ptya1"
function TTY_Descriptor
(Handle : TTY_Handle) return GNAT.OS_Lib.File_Descriptor;
-- Return the low level descriptor associated with Handle
private
type TTY_Handle is record
Handle : System.Address := System.Null_Address;
end record;
end GNAT.TTY;