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+.\" $NetBSD: ioctl.2,v 1.23 2010/12/19 22:19:27 wiz Exp $
+.\"
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+.\" @(#)ioctl.2 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93
+.\"
+.Dd December 19, 2010
+.Dt IOCTL 2
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm ioctl
+.Nd control device
+.Sh LIBRARY
+.Lb libc
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.In sys/ioctl.h
+.Ft int
+.Fn ioctl "int d" "unsigned long request" "..."
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Fn ioctl
+function manipulates the underlying device parameters of special files.
+In particular, many operating
+characteristics of character special files (e.g. terminals)
+may be controlled with
+.Fn ioctl
+requests.
+The argument
+.Fa d
+must be an open file descriptor.
+.Pp
+An
+.Fn ioctl
+.Fa request
+has encoded in it whether the argument is an
+.Dq in ,
+.Dq out ,
+or
+.Dq inout
+parameter, and the size of the first variadic argument
+in bytes.
+Note that there can be only one variadic argument but cannot be represented as
+a
+.Ft "void *"
+argument in the prototype because this would require a cast to pass integral
+types without warnings.
+Macros and defines used in specifying an
+.Fn ioctl
+.Fa request
+are located in the header
+.In sys/ioctl.h .
+.Sh GENERIC IOCTLS
+Some ioctls are applicable to any file descriptor.
+These include:
+.Bl -tag -width "xxxxxx"
+.It Dv FIOCLEX
+Set close-on-exec flag.
+The file will be closed when
+.Xr exec 3
+is invoked
+(This is equivalent to
+.Fn fcntl
+.Dv F_SETFD
+.Dv FD_CLOEXEC
+and the
+.Fn fcntl
+form should be preferred).
+.It Dv FIONCLEX
+Clear close-on-exec flag.
+The file will remain open across
+.Xr exec 3
+(This is equivalent to
+.Fn fcntl
+.Dv F_SETFD
+.Dv 0
+and the
+.Fn fcntl
+form should be preferred).
+.El
+.Pp
+Some generic ioctls are not implemented for all types of file
+descriptors.
+These include:
+.Bl -tag -width "xxxxxx"
+.It Dv FIONREAD "int"
+Get the number of bytes that are immediately available for reading.
+.It Dv FIONWRITE "int"
+Get the number of bytes in the descriptor's send queue.
+These bytes are data which has been written to the descriptor but
+which are being held by the kernel for further processing.
+The nature of the required processing depends on the underlying device.
+For tty devices, these bytes are typically queued for delivery
+to the tty hardware.
+For TCP sockets, these bytes have not yet been acknowledged by the
+other side of the connection.
+For files, this operation always returns zero as files do not have
+send queues.
+.It Dv FIONSPACE "int"
+Get the free space in the descriptor's send queue.
+This value is the size of the send queue minus the number of bytes
+being held in the queue.
+Note: while this value represents the number of bytes that may be
+added to the queue, other resource limitations may cause a write
+not larger than the send queue's space to be blocked.
+One such limitation would be a lack of network buffers for a write
+to a network connection.
+.It Dv FIONBIO "int"
+Set non-blocking I/O mode if the argument is non-zero.
+In non-blocking mode,
+.Xr read 2
+or
+.Xr write 2
+calls return
+.Dv \-1
+and set
+.Va errno
+to
+.Er EAGAIN
+immediately when no data is available
+(This is equivalent to
+.Fn fcntl
+.Dv F_SETFL
+.Dv O_NONBLOCK
+and the
+.Fn fcntl
+form should be preferred).
+.It Dv FIOASYNC "int"
+Set asynchronous I/O mode if the argument is non-zero
+(This is equivalent to
+.Fn fcntl
+.Dv F_SETFL
+.Dv O_ASYNC
+and the
+.Fn fcntl
+form should be preferred).
+In asynchronous mode, the process or process group specified by
+.Dv FIOSETOWN
+will start receiving
+.Dv SIGIO
+signals when data is available.
+The
+.Dv SIGIO
+signal will be delivered when data is available on the file
+descriptor.
+.It Dv FIOSETOWN, FIOGETOWN "int"
+Set/get the process or the process group (if negative) that should receive
+.Dv SIGIO
+signals when data is available
+(This is equivalent to
+.Fn fcntl
+.Dv F_SETOWN
+.Ft pid_t
+and the
+.Ft fcntl
+form should be preferred).
+.El
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+If an error has occurred, a value of \-1 is returned and
+.Va errno
+is set to indicate the error.
+.Sh ERRORS
+.Fn ioctl
+will fail if:
+.Bl -tag -width Er
+.It Bq Er EBADF
+.Fa d
+is not a valid descriptor.
+.It Bq Er EFAULT
+.Fa argp
+points outside the process's allocated address space.
+.It Bq Er EINVAL
+.Fa request
+or
+.Fa argp
+is not valid.
+.It Bq Er ENOTTY
+.Fa d
+is not associated with a character
+special device; or
+the specified request does not apply to the kind
+of object that the descriptor
+.Fa d
+references.
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr mt 1 ,
+.Xr execve 2 ,
+.Xr fcntl 2 ,
+.Xr intro 4 ,
+.Xr tty 4
+.Sh HISTORY
+An
+.Fn ioctl
+function call appeared in
+.At v7 .