//! Provide helpers for making ioctl system calls. //! //! This library is pretty low-level and messy. `ioctl` is not fun. //! //! What is an `ioctl`? //! =================== //! //! The `ioctl` syscall is the grab-bag syscall on POSIX systems. Don't want to add a new //! syscall? Make it an `ioctl`! `ioctl` refers to both the syscall, and the commands that can be //! sent with it. `ioctl` stands for "IO control", and the commands are always sent to a file //! descriptor. //! //! It is common to see `ioctl`s used for the following purposes: //! //! * Provide read/write access to out-of-band data related to a device such as configuration //! (for instance, setting serial port options) //! * Provide a mechanism for performing full-duplex data transfers (for instance, xfer on SPI //! devices). //! * Provide access to control functions on a device (for example, on Linux you can send //! commands like pause, resume, and eject to the CDROM device. //! * Do whatever else the device driver creator thought made most sense. //! //! `ioctl`s are synchronous system calls and are similar to read and write calls in that regard. //! They operate on file descriptors and have an identifier that specifies what the ioctl is. //! Additionally they may read or write data and therefore need to pass along a data pointer. //! Besides the semantics of the ioctls being confusing, the generation of this identifer can also //! be difficult. //! //! Historically `ioctl` numbers were arbitrary hard-coded values. In Linux (before 2.6) and some //! unices this has changed to a more-ordered system where the ioctl numbers are partitioned into //! subcomponents (For linux this is documented in //! [`Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt`](http://elixir.free-electrons.com/linux/latest/source/Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt)): //! //! * Number: The actual ioctl ID //! * Type: A grouping of ioctls for a common purpose or driver //! * Size: The size in bytes of the data that will be transferred //! * Direction: Whether there is any data and if it's read, write, or both //! //! Newer drivers should not generate complete integer identifiers for their `ioctl`s instead //! preferring to use the 4 components above to generate the final ioctl identifier. Because of //! how old `ioctl`s are, however, there are many hard-coded `ioctl` identifiers. These are //! commonly referred to as "bad" in `ioctl` documentation. //! //! Defining ioctls //! =============== //! //! This library provides the `ioctl!` macro, for binding `ioctl`s. This macro generates public //! unsafe functions that can then be used for calling the ioctl. This macro has a few different //! ways it can be used depending on the specific ioctl you're working with. //! //! A simple `ioctl` is `SPI_IOC_RD_MODE`. This ioctl works with the SPI interface on Linux. This //! specific `ioctl` reads the mode of the SPI device as a `u8`. It's declared in //! `/include/uapi/linux/spi/spidev.h` as `_IOR(SPI_IOC_MAGIC, 1, __u8)`. Since it uses the `_IOR` //! macro, we know it's a `read` ioctl and can use the `ioctl!` macro as follows: //! //! ``` //! # #[macro_use] extern crate nix; //! const SPI_IOC_MAGIC: u8 = b'k'; // Defined in linux/spi/spidev.h //! const SPI_IOC_TYPE_MODE: u8 = 1; //! ioctl!(read spi_read_mode with SPI_IOC_MAGIC, SPI_IOC_TYPE_MODE; u8); //! # fn main() {} //! ``` //! //! This generates the function: //! //! ``` //! # #[macro_use] extern crate nix; //! # use std::mem; //! # use nix::{Errno, libc, Result}; //! # use nix::libc::c_int as c_int; //! # const SPI_IOC_MAGIC: u8 = b'k'; // Defined in linux/spi/spidev.h //! # const SPI_IOC_TYPE_MODE: u8 = 1; //! pub unsafe fn spi_read_mode(fd: c_int, data: *mut u8) -> Result { //! let res = libc::ioctl(fd, ior!(SPI_IOC_MAGIC, SPI_IOC_TYPE_MODE, mem::size_of::()), data); //! Errno::result(res) //! } //! # fn main() {} //! ``` //! //! The return value for `ioctl` functions generated by the `ioctl!` macro are `nix::Error`s. //! These are generated by assuming the return value of the ioctl is `-1` on error and everything //! else is a valid return value. If this is not the case, `Result::map` can be used to map some //! of the range of "good" values (-2..-Inf, 0..Inf) into a smaller range in a helper function. //! //! The mode for a given `ioctl` should be clear from the documentation if it has good //! documentation. Otherwise it will be clear based on the macro used to generate the `ioctl` //! number where `_IO`, `_IOR`, `_IOW`, and `_IORW` map to "none", "read", "write_*", and "readwrite" //! respectively. To determine the specific `write_` variant to use you'll need to find //! what the argument type is supposed to be. If it's an `int`, then `write_int` should be used, //! otherwise it should be a pointer and `write_ptr` should be used. On Linux the //! [`ioctl_list` man page](http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/ioctl_list.2.html) describes a //! large number of `ioctl`s and describes their argument data type. //! //! More examples on using `ioctl!` can be found in the [rust-spidev crate](https://github.com/rust-embedded/rust-spidev). //! //! ```text //! pub unsafe fn $NAME(fd: c_int, val: *mut u8, len: usize) -> Result; //! ``` //! //! As mentioned earlier, there are many old `ioctl`s that do not use the newer method of //! generating `ioctl` numbers and instead use hardcoded values. These can be used with the `bad` //! form of the `ioctl!` macro (there is no data transfer direction used with `bad`). The naming of //! this comes from the Linux kernel which refers to these `ioctl`s as "bad". //! //! For example the `TCGETS` `ioctl` reads a `termios` data structure for a given file descriptor. //! It can be implemented as: //! //! ``` //! # #[macro_use] extern crate nix; //! # #[cfg(any(target_os = "android", target_os = "linux"))] //! # use nix::libc::TCGETS as TCGETS; //! # #[cfg(any(target_os = "android", target_os = "linux"))] //! ioctl!(bad tcgets with TCGETS); //! # fn main() {} //! ``` //! //! The generated function has the same form as that generated by `read`: //! //! ```text //! pub unsafe fn tcgets(fd: c_int, val: *mut u8) -> Result; //! ``` //! //! There is also a `bad none` form for use with hard-coded `ioctl`s that do not transfer data. //! The `TIOCEXCL` `ioctl` that's part of the termios API can be implemented as: //! //! ``` //! # #[macro_use] extern crate nix; //! # use nix::libc::TIOCEXCL as TIOCEXCL; //! ioctl!(bad none tiocexcl with TIOCEXCL); //! # fn main() {} //! ``` //! //! More examples on using `ioctl!` can be found in the [rust-spidev crate](https://github.com/rust-embedded/rust-spidev). //! //! Finding ioctl documentation //! --------------------------- //! //! For Linux, look at your system's headers. For example, `/usr/include/linux/input.h` has a lot //! of lines defining macros which use `_IO`, `_IOR`, `_IOW`, `_IOC`, and `_IORW`. Some `ioctl`s are //! documented directly in the headers defining their constants, but others have more extensive //! documentation in man pages (like termios' `ioctl`s which are in `tty_ioctl(4)`). #[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "android"))] #[path = "platform/linux.rs"] #[macro_use] mod platform; #[cfg(any(target_os = "macos", target_os = "ios", target_os = "netbsd", target_os = "openbsd", target_os = "freebsd", target_os = "dragonfly"))] #[path = "platform/bsd.rs"] #[macro_use] mod platform; pub use self::platform::*; /// Convert raw ioctl return value to a Nix result #[macro_export] #[doc(hidden)] macro_rules! convert_ioctl_res { ($w:expr) => ( { $crate::Errno::result($w) } ); } /// Generates ioctl functions. See [::sys::ioctl](sys/ioctl/index.html). #[macro_export] macro_rules! ioctl { (bad $name:ident with $nr:expr) => ( pub unsafe fn $name(fd: $crate::libc::c_int, data: *mut u8) -> $crate::Result<$crate::libc::c_int> { convert_ioctl_res!($crate::libc::ioctl(fd, $nr as $crate::sys::ioctl::ioctl_num_type, data)) } ); (bad none $name:ident with $nr:expr) => ( pub unsafe fn $name(fd: $crate::libc::c_int) -> $crate::Result<$crate::libc::c_int> { convert_ioctl_res!($crate::libc::ioctl(fd, $nr as $crate::sys::ioctl::ioctl_num_type)) } ); (none $name:ident with $ioty:expr, $nr:expr) => ( pub unsafe fn $name(fd: $crate::libc::c_int) -> $crate::Result<$crate::libc::c_int> { convert_ioctl_res!($crate::libc::ioctl(fd, io!($ioty, $nr) as $crate::sys::ioctl::ioctl_num_type)) } ); (read $name:ident with $ioty:expr, $nr:expr; $ty:ty) => ( pub unsafe fn $name(fd: $crate::libc::c_int, val: *mut $ty) -> $crate::Result<$crate::libc::c_int> { convert_ioctl_res!($crate::libc::ioctl(fd, ior!($ioty, $nr, ::std::mem::size_of::<$ty>()) as $crate::sys::ioctl::ioctl_num_type, val)) } ); (write $name:ident with $ioty:expr, $nr:expr; $ty:ty) => ( pub unsafe fn $name(fd: $crate::libc::c_int, val: $ty) -> $crate::Result<$crate::libc::c_int> { convert_ioctl_res!($crate::libc::ioctl(fd, iow!($ioty, $nr, ::std::mem::size_of::<$ty>()) as $crate::sys::ioctl::ioctl_num_type, val)) } ); (readwrite $name:ident with $ioty:expr, $nr:expr; $ty:ty) => ( pub unsafe fn $name(fd: $crate::libc::c_int, val: *mut $ty) -> $crate::Result<$crate::libc::c_int> { convert_ioctl_res!($crate::libc::ioctl(fd, iorw!($ioty, $nr, ::std::mem::size_of::<$ty>()) as $crate::sys::ioctl::ioctl_num_type, val)) } ); (read buf $name:ident with $ioty:expr, $nr:expr; $ty:ty) => ( pub unsafe fn $name(fd: $crate::libc::c_int, val: *mut $ty, len: usize) -> $crate::Result<$crate::libc::c_int> { convert_ioctl_res!($crate::libc::ioctl(fd, ior!($ioty, $nr, len) as $crate::sys::ioctl::ioctl_num_type, val)) } ); (write buf $name:ident with $ioty:expr, $nr:expr; $ty:ty) => ( pub unsafe fn $name(fd: $crate::libc::c_int, val: *const $ty, len: usize) -> $crate::Result<$crate::libc::c_int> { convert_ioctl_res!($crate::libc::ioctl(fd, iow!($ioty, $nr, len) as $crate::sys::ioctl::ioctl_num_type, val)) } ); (readwrite buf $name:ident with $ioty:expr, $nr:expr; $ty:ty) => ( pub unsafe fn $name(fd: $crate::libc::c_int, val: *mut $ty, len: usize) -> $crate::Result<$crate::libc::c_int> { convert_ioctl_res!($crate::libc::ioctl(fd, iorw!($ioty, $nr, len) as $crate::sys::ioctl::ioctl_num_type, val)) } ); }