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IOCtl

General kernel IOCTL call.

Declaration

Source position: oldlinux.pp line 1496

function IOCtl(

  Handle: LongInt;

  Ndx: LongInt;

  Data: Pointer

):Boolean;

Description

This is a general interface to the Unix/ linux ioctl call. It performs various operations on the filedescriptor Handle. Ndxdescribes the operation to perform. Datapoints to data needed for the Ndxfunction. The structure of this data is function-dependent, so we don't elaborate on this here. For more information on this, see various manual pages under linux.

Errors

Errors are reported in LinuxError. They are very dependent on the used function, that's why we don't list them here

Example

Program Example54;

uses oldlinux;

{ Program to demonstrate the IOCtl function. }

var
  tios : Termios;
begin
  IOCtl(1,TCGETS,@tios);
  WriteLn('Input Flags  : $',hexstr(tios.c_iflag,8));
  WriteLn('Output Flags : $',hexstr(tios.c_oflag,8));
  WriteLn('Line Flags   : $',hexstr(tios.c_lflag,8));
  WriteLn('Control Flags: $',hexstr(tios.c_cflag,8));
end.