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--  Operating system interface facilities

--  This package contains types and procedures for interfacing to the
--  underlying OS. It is used by the GNAT compiler and by tools associated
--  with the GNAT compiler, and therefore works for the various operating
--  systems to which GNAT has been ported. This package will undoubtedly
--  grow as new services are needed by various tools.

--  This package tends to use fairly low-level Ada in order to not bring
--  in large portions of the RTL. For example, functions return access
--  to string as part of avoiding functions returning unconstrained types.

--  Except where specifically noted, these routines are portable across
--  all GNAT implementations on all supported operating systems.

with System;
with GNAT.Strings;

package GNAT.OS_Lib is
pragma Elaborate_Body (OS_Lib);

   subtype String_Access is Strings.String_Access;
   --  General purpose string access type. Some of the functions in this
   --  package allocate string results on the heap, and return a value of
   --  this type. Note that the caller is responsible for freeing this
   --  String to avoid memory leaks.

   function "=" (Left, Right : in String_Access) return Boolean
     renames Strings."=";

   procedure Free (X : in out String_Access) renames Strings.Free;
   --  This procedure is provided for freeing returned values of type
   --  String_Access

   subtype String_List is Strings.String_List;
   function "=" (Left, Right : in String_List) return Boolean
     renames Strings."=";

   function "&" (Left : String_Access; Right : String_Access)
     return String_List renames Strings."&";
   function "&" (Left : String_Access; Right : String_List)
     return String_List renames Strings."&";
   function "&" (Left : String_List; Right : String_Access)
     return String_List renames Strings."&";
   function "&" (Left : String_List; Right : String_List)
     return String_List renames Strings."&";

   subtype String_List_Access is Strings.String_List_Access;
   --  General purpose array and pointer for list of string accesses
   function "=" (Left, Right : in String_List_Access) return Boolean
     renames Strings."=";

   procedure Free (Arg : in out String_List_Access)
     renames Strings.Free;
   --  Frees the given array and all strings that its elements reference,
   --  and then sets the argument to null. Provided for freeing returned
   --  values of this type (including Argument_List_Access).

   ---------------------
   -- Time/Date Stuff --
   ---------------------

   type OS_Time is private;
   --  The OS's notion of time is represented by the private type OS_Time.
   --  This is the type returned by the File_Time_Stamp functions to obtain
   --  the time stamp of a specified file. Functions and a procedure (modeled
   --  after the similar subprograms in package Calendar) are provided for
   --  extracting information from a value of this type. Although these are
   --  called GM, the intention is not that they provide GMT times in all
   --  cases but rather the actual (time-zone independent) time stamp of the
   --  file (of course in Unix systems, this *is* in GMT form).

   Invalid_Time : constant OS_Time;
   --  A special unique value used to flag an invalid time stamp value

   subtype Year_Type   is Integer range 1900 .. 2099;
   subtype Month_Type  is Integer range    1 ..   12;
   subtype Day_Type    is Integer range    1 ..   31;
   subtype Hour_Type   is Integer range    0 ..   23;
   subtype Minute_Type is Integer range    0 ..   59;
   subtype Second_Type is Integer range    0 ..   59;
   --  Declarations similar to those in Calendar, breaking down the time


   function GM_Year    (Date : OS_Time) return Year_Type;
   function GM_Month   (Date : OS_Time) return Month_Type;
   function GM_Day     (Date : OS_Time) return Day_Type;
   function GM_Hour    (Date : OS_Time) return Hour_Type;
   function GM_Minute  (Date : OS_Time) return Minute_Type;
   function GM_Second  (Date : OS_Time) return Second_Type;
   --  Functions to extract information from OS_Time value

   function "<"  (X, Y : OS_Time) return Boolean;
   function ">"  (X, Y : OS_Time) return Boolean;
   function ">=" (X, Y : OS_Time) return Boolean;
   function "<=" (X, Y : OS_Time) return Boolean;
   --  Basic comparison operators on OS_Time with obvious meanings. Note
   --  that these have Intrinsic convention, so for example it is not
   --  permissible to create accesses to any of these functions.

   procedure GM_Split
     (Date    : OS_Time;
      Year    : out Year_Type;
      Month   : out Month_Type;
      Day     : out Day_Type;
      Hour    : out Hour_Type;
      Minute  : out Minute_Type;
      Second  : out Second_Type);
   --  Analogous to the routine of similar name in Calendar, takes an OS_Time
   --  and splits it into its component parts with obvious meanings.

   ----------------
   -- File Stuff --
   ----------------

   --  These routines give access to the open/creat/close/read/write level
   --  of I/O routines in the typical C library (these functions are not
   --  part of the ANSI C standard, but are typically available in all
   --  systems). See also package Interfaces.C_Streams for access to the
   --  stream level routines.

   --  Note on file names. If a file name is passed as type String in any
   --  of the following specifications, then the name is a normal Ada string
   --  and need not be NUL-terminated. However, a trailing NUL character is
   --  permitted, and will be ignored (more accurately, the NUL and any
   --  characters that follow it will be ignored).

   type File_Descriptor is new Integer;
   --  Corresponds to the int file handle values used in the C routines

   Standin  : constant File_Descriptor := 0;
   Standout : constant File_Descriptor := 1;
   Standerr : constant File_Descriptor := 2;
   --  File descriptors for standard input output files

   Invalid_FD : constant File_Descriptor := -1;
   --  File descriptor returned when error in opening/creating file;

   type Mode is (Binary, Text);
   for Mode'Size use Integer'Size;
   for Mode use (Binary => 0, Text => 1);
   --  Used in all the Open and Create calls to specify if the file is to be
   --  opened in binary mode or text mode. In systems like Unix, this has no
   --  effect, but in systems capable of text mode translation, the use of
   --  Text as the mode parameter causes the system to do CR/LF translation
   --  and also to recognize the DOS end of file character on input. The use
   --  of Text where appropriate allows programs to take a portable Unix view
   --  of DOS-format files and process them appropriately.

   function Open_Read
     (Name  : String;
      Fmode : Mode) return File_Descriptor;
   --  Open file Name for reading, returning file descriptor File descriptor
   --  returned is Invalid_FD if file cannot be opened.

   function Open_Read_Write
     (Name  : String;
      Fmode : Mode) return File_Descriptor;
   --  Open file Name for both reading and writing, returning file
   --  descriptor. File descriptor returned is Invalid_FD if file cannot be
   --  opened.

   function Create_File
     (Name  : String;
      Fmode : Mode) return File_Descriptor;
   --  Creates new file with given name for writing, returning file descriptor
   --  for subsequent use in Write calls. File descriptor returned is
   --  Invalid_FD if file cannot be successfully created.

   function Create_Output_Text_File (Name  : String) return File_Descriptor;
   --  Creates new text file with given name suitable to redirect standard
   --  output, returning file descriptor. File descriptor returned is
   --  Invalid_FD if file cannot be successfully created.

   function Create_New_File
     (Name  : String;
      Fmode : Mode) return File_Descriptor;
   --  Create new file with given name for writing, returning file descriptor
   --  for subsequent use in Write calls. This differs from Create_File in
   --  that it fails if the file already exists. File descriptor returned is
   --  Invalid_FD if the file exists or cannot be created.

   Temp_File_Len : constant Integer := 12;
   --  Length of name returned by Create_Temp_File call (GNAT-XXXXXX & NUL)

   subtype Temp_File_Name is String (1 .. Temp_File_Len);
   --  String subtype set by Create_Temp_File

   procedure Create_Temp_File
     (FD   : out File_Descriptor;
      Name : out Temp_File_Name);
   --  Create and open for writing a temporary file in the current working
   --  directory. The name of the file and the File Descriptor are returned.
   --  The File Descriptor returned is Invalid_FD in the case of failure.
   --  No mode parameter is provided. Since this is a temporary file,
   --  there is no point in doing text translation on it.
   --  On some OSes, the maximum number of temp files that can be
   --  created with this procedure may be limited. When the maximum is
   --  reached, this procedure returns Invalid_FD. On some OSes, there may be
   --  a race condition between processes trying to create temp files
   --  at the same time in the same directory using this procedure.

   procedure Create_Temp_File
     (FD   : out File_Descriptor;
      Name : out String_Access);
   --  Create and open for writing a temporary file in the current working
   --  directory. The name of the file and the File Descriptor are returned.
   --  No mode parameter is provided. Since this is a temporary file,
   --  there is no point in doing text translation on it.
   --  It is the responsibility of the caller to deallocate the access value
   --  returned in Name.
   --  This procedure will always succeed if the current working directory
   --  is writable. If the current working directory is not writable, then
   --  Invalid_FD is returned for the file descriptor and null for the Name.
   --  There is no race condition problem between processes trying to
   --  create temp files at the same time in the same directory.

   procedure Close (FD : File_Descriptor; Status : out Boolean);
   --  Close file referenced by FD. Status is False if the underlying service
   --  failed. Reasons for failure include: disk full, disk quotas exceeded
   --  and invalid file descriptor (the file may have been closed twice).

   procedure Close (FD : File_Descriptor);
   --  Close file referenced by FD. This form is used when the caller
   --  wants to ignore any possible error (see above for error cases).

   procedure Delete_File (Name : String; Success : out Boolean);
   --  Deletes file. Success is set True or False indicating if the delete is
   --  successful.

   procedure Rename_File
     (Old_Name : String;
      New_Name : String;
      Success  : out Boolean);
   --  Rename a file. Success is set True or False indicating if the
   --  rename is successful or not.

   --  The following defines the mode for the Copy_File procedure below.
   --  Note that "time stamps and other file attributes" in the descriptions
   --  below refers to the creation and last modification times, and also
   --  the file access (read/write/execute) status flags.

   type Copy_Mode is
     (Copy,
      --  Copy the file. It is an error if the target file already exists.
      --  The time stamps and other file attributes are preserved in the copy.

      Overwrite,
      --  If the target file exists, the file is replaced otherwise
      --  the file is just copied. The time stamps and other file
      --  attributes are preserved in the copy.

      Append);
      --  If the target file exists, the contents of the source file
      --  is appended at the end. Otherwise the source file is just
      --  copied. The time stamps and other file attributes are
      --  are preserved if the destination file does not exist.

   type Attribute is
     (Time_Stamps,
      --  Copy time stamps from source file to target file. All other
      --  attributes are set to normal default values for file creation.

      Full,
      --  All attributes are copied from the source file to the target
      --  file. This includes the timestamps, and for example also includes
      --  read/write/execute attributes in Unix systems.

      None);
      --  No attributes are copied. All attributes including the time stamp
      --  values are set to normal default values for file creation.

   --  Note: The default is Time_Stamps, which corresponds to the normal
   --  default on Windows style systems. Full corresponds to the typical
   --  effect of "cp -p" on Unix systems, and None corresponds to the
   --  typical effect of "cp" on Unix systems.

   --  Note: Time_Stamps and Full are not supported on VMS and VxWorks

   procedure Copy_File
     (Name     : String;
      Pathname : String;
      Success  : out Boolean;
      Mode     : Copy_Mode := Copy;
      Preserve : Attribute := Time_Stamps);
   --  Copy a file. Name must designate a single file (no wild cards allowed).
   --  Pathname can be a filename or directory name. In the latter case Name
   --  is copied into the directory preserving the same file name. Mode
   --  defines the kind of copy, see above with the default being a normal
   --  copy in which the target file must not already exist. Success is set
   --  to True or False indicating if the copy is successful (depending on
   --  the specified Mode).
   --
   --  Note: this procedure is only supported to a very limited extent on
   --  VMS. The only supported mode is Overwrite, and the only supported
   --  value for Preserve is None, resulting in the default action which
   --  for Overwrite is to leave attributes unchanged. Furthermore, the
   --  copy only works for simple text files.

   procedure Copy_Time_Stamps (Source, Dest : String; Success : out Boolean);
   --  Copy Source file time stamps (last modification and last access time
   --  stamps) to Dest file. Source and Dest must be valid filenames,
   --  furthermore Dest must be writable. Success will be set to True if the
   --  operation was successful and False otherwise.
   --
   --  Note: this procedure is not supported on VMS and VxWorks. On these
   --  platforms, Success is always set to False.

   function Read
     (FD   : File_Descriptor;
      A    : System.Address;
      N    : Integer) return Integer;
   --  Read N bytes to address A from file referenced by FD. Returned value
   --  is count of bytes actually read, which can be less than N at EOF.

   function Write
     (FD   : File_Descriptor;
      A    : System.Address;
      N    : Integer) return Integer;
   --  Write N bytes from address A to file referenced by FD. The returned
   --  value is the number of bytes written, which can be less than N if
   --  a disk full condition was detected.

   Seek_Cur : constant := 1;
   Seek_End : constant := 2;
   Seek_Set : constant := 0;
   --  Used to indicate origin for Lseek call

   procedure Lseek
     (FD     : File_Descriptor;
      offset : Long_Integer;
      origin : Integer);
   pragma Import (C, Lseek, "__gnat_lseek");
   --  Sets the current file pointer to the indicated offset value,
   --  relative to the current position (origin = SEEK_CUR), end of
   --  file (origin = SEEK_END), or start of file (origin = SEEK_SET).

   function File_Length (FD : File_Descriptor) return Long_Integer;
   pragma Import (C, File_Length, "__gnat_file_length");
   --  Get length of file from file descriptor FD

   function File_Time_Stamp (Name : String) return OS_Time;
   --  Given the name of a file or directory, Name, obtains and returns the
   --  time stamp. This function can be used for an unopened file.
   --  Returns Invalid_Time is Name doesn't correspond to an existing file.

   function File_Time_Stamp (FD : File_Descriptor) return OS_Time;
   --  Get time stamp of file from file descriptor FD
   --  Returns Invalid_Time is FD doesn't correspond to an existing file.

   function Normalize_Pathname
     (Name           : String;
      Directory      : String  := "";
      Resolve_Links  : Boolean := True;
      Case_Sensitive : Boolean := True) return String;
   --  Returns a file name as an absolute path name, resolving all relative
   --  directories, and symbolic links. The parameter Directory is a fully
   --  resolved path name for a directory, or the empty string (the default).
   --  Name is the name of a file, which is either relative to the given
   --  directory name, if Directory is non-null, or to the current working
   --  directory if Directory is null. The result returned is the normalized
   --  name of the file. For most cases, if two file names designate the same
   --  file through different paths, Normalize_Pathname will return the same
   --  canonical name in both cases. However, there are cases when this is
   --  not true; for example, this is not true in Unix for two hard links
   --  designating the same file.
   --
   --  On Windows, the returned path will start with a drive letter except
   --  when Directory is not empty and does not include a drive letter.
   --  If Directory is empty (the default) and Name is a relative path
   --  or an absolute path without drive letter, the letter of the current
   --  drive will start the returned path. If Case_Sensitive is True
   --  (the default), then this drive letter will be forced to upper case
   --  ("C:\...").
   --
   --  If Resolve_Links is set to True, then the symbolic links, on systems
   --  that support them, will be fully converted to the name of the file
   --  or directory pointed to. This is slightly less efficient, since it
   --  requires system calls.
   --
   --  If Name cannot be resolved or is null on entry (for example if there is
   --  a circularity in symbolic links: A is a symbolic link for B, while B is
   --  a symbolic link for A), then Normalize_Pathname returns an empty string.
   --
   --  In VMS, if Name follows the VMS syntax file specification, it is first
   --  converted into Unix syntax. If the conversion fails, Normalize_Pathname
   --  returns an empty string.
   --
   --  For case-sensitive file systems, the value of Case_Sensitive parameter
   --  is ignored.  For file systems that are not case-sensitive, such as
   --  Windows and OpenVMS, if this parameter is set to False, then the file
   --  and directory names are folded to lower case. This allows checking
   --  whether two files are the same by applying this function to their names
   --  and comparing the results.  If Case_Sensitive is set to True, this
   --  function does not change the casing of file and directory names.

   function Is_Absolute_Path (Name : String) return Boolean;
   --  Returns True if Name is an absolute path name, i.e. it designates
   --  a file or a directory absolutely, rather than relative to another
   --  directory.

   function Is_Regular_File (Name : String) return Boolean;
   --  Determines if the given string, Name, is the name of an existing
   --  regular file. Returns True if so, False otherwise. Name may be an
   --  absolute path name or a relative path name, including a simple file
   --  name. If it is a relative path name, it is relative to the current
   --  working directory.

   function Is_Directory (Name : String) return Boolean;
   --  Determines if the given string, Name, is the name of a directory.
   --  Returns True if so, False otherwise. Name may be an absolute path
   --  name or a relative path name, including a simple file name. If it is
   --  a relative path name, it is relative to the current working directory.

   function Is_Readable_File (Name : String) return Boolean;
   --  Determines if the given string, Name, is the name of an existing
   --  file that is readable. Returns True if so, False otherwise. Note
   --  that this function simply interrogates the file attributes (e.g.
   --  using the C function stat), so it does not indicate a situation
   --  in which a file may not actually be readable due to some other
   --  process having exclusive access.

   function Is_Writable_File (Name : String) return Boolean;
   --  Determines if the given string, Name, is the name of an existing
   --  file that is writable. Returns True if so, False otherwise. Note
   --  that this function simply interrogates the file attributes (e.g.
   --  using the C function stat), so it does not indicate a situation
   --  in which a file may not actually be writeable due to some other
   --  process having exclusive access.

   function Is_Symbolic_Link (Name : String) return Boolean;
   --  Determines if the given string, Name, is the path of a symbolic link
   --  on systems that support it. Returns True if so, False if the path
   --  is not a symbolic link or if the system does not support symbolic links.
   --
   --  A symbolic link is an indirect pointer to a file; its directory entry
   --  contains the name of the file to which it is linked. Symbolic links may
   --  span file systems and may refer to directories.

   procedure Set_Writable (Name : String);
   --  Change the permissions on the named file to make it writable
   --  for its owner.

   procedure Set_Read_Only (Name : String);
   --  Change the permissions on the named file to make it non-writable
   --  for its owner.

   procedure Set_Executable (Name : String);
   --  Change the permissions on the named file to make it executable
   --  for its owner.

   function Locate_Exec_On_Path
     (Exec_Name : String) return String_Access;
   --  Try to locate an executable whose name is given by Exec_Name in the
   --  directories listed in the environment Path. If the Exec_Name doesn't
   --  have the executable suffix, it will be appended before the search.
   --  Otherwise works like Locate_Regular_File below.
   --
   --  Note that this function allocates some memory for the returned value.
   --  This memory needs to be deallocated after use.

   function Locate_Regular_File
     (File_Name : String;
      Path      : String) return String_Access;
   --  Try to locate a regular file whose name is given by File_Name in the
   --  directories listed in  Path. If a file is found, its full pathname is
   --  returned; otherwise, a null pointer is returned. If the File_Name given
   --  is an absolute pathname, then Locate_Regular_File just checks that the
   --  file exists and is a regular file. Otherwise, if the File_Name given
   --  includes directory information, Locate_Regular_File first checks if
   --  the file exists relative to the current directory. If it does not,
   --  or if the File_Name given is a simple file name, the Path argument is
   --  parsed according to OS conventions, and for each directory in the Path
   --  a check is made if File_Name is a relative pathname of a regular file
   --  from that directory.
   --
   --  Note that this function allocates some memory for the returned value.
   --  This memory needs to be deallocated after use.

   function Get_Debuggable_Suffix return String_Access;
   --  Return the debuggable suffix convention. Usually this is the same as
   --  the convention for Get_Executable_Suffix. The result is allocated on
   --  the heap and should be freed when no longer needed to avoid storage
   --  leaks.

   function Get_Executable_Suffix return String_Access;
   --  Return the executable suffix convention. The result is allocated on
   --  the heap and should be freed when no longer needed to avoid storage
   --  leaks.

   function Get_Object_Suffix return String_Access;
   --  Return the object suffix convention. The result is allocated on the
   --  heap and should be freed when no longer needed to avoid storage leaks.

   --  The following section contains low-level routines using addresses to
   --  pass file name and executable name. In each routine the name must be
   --  Nul-Terminated. For complete documentation refer to the equivalent
   --  routine (using String in place of C_File_Name) defined above.

   subtype C_File_Name is System.Address;
   --  This subtype is used to document that a parameter is the address
   --  of a null-terminated string containing the name of a file.

   --  All the following functions need comments ???

   function Open_Read
     (Name  : C_File_Name;
      Fmode : Mode) return File_Descriptor;

   function Open_Read_Write
     (Name  : C_File_Name;
      Fmode : Mode) return File_Descriptor;

   function Create_File
     (Name  : C_File_Name;
      Fmode : Mode) return File_Descriptor;

   function Create_New_File
     (Name  : C_File_Name;
      Fmode : Mode) return File_Descriptor;

   procedure Delete_File (Name : C_File_Name; Success : out Boolean);

   procedure Rename_File
     (Old_Name : C_File_Name;
      New_Name : C_File_Name;
      Success  : out Boolean);

   procedure Copy_File
     (Name     : C_File_Name;
      Pathname : C_File_Name;
      Success  : out Boolean;
      Mode     : Copy_Mode := Copy;
      Preserve : Attribute := Time_Stamps);

   procedure Copy_Time_Stamps
     (Source, Dest : C_File_Name;
      Success      : out Boolean);

   function File_Time_Stamp (Name : C_File_Name) return OS_Time;
   --  Returns Invalid_Time is Name doesn't correspond to an existing file.

   function Is_Regular_File (Name : C_File_Name) return Boolean;
   function Is_Directory (Name : C_File_Name) return Boolean;
   function Is_Readable_File (Name : C_File_Name) return Boolean;
   function Is_Writable_File (Name : C_File_Name) return Boolean;
   function Is_Symbolic_Link (Name : C_File_Name) return Boolean;

   function Locate_Regular_File
     (File_Name : C_File_Name;
      Path      : C_File_Name)
      return      String_Access;

   ------------------
   -- Subprocesses --
   ------------------

   subtype Argument_List is String_List;
   --  Type used for argument list in call to Spawn. The lower bound
   --  of the array should be 1, and the length of the array indicates
   --  the number of arguments.

   subtype Argument_List_Access is String_List_Access;
   --  Type used to return Argument_List without dragging in secondary stack.
   --  Note that there is a Free procedure declared for this subtype which
   --  frees the array and all referenced strings.

   procedure Normalize_Arguments (Args : in out Argument_List);
   --  Normalize all arguments in the list. This ensure that the argument list
   --  is compatible with the running OS and will works fine with Spawn and
   --  Non_Blocking_Spawn for example. If Normalize_Arguments is called twice
   --  on the same list it will do nothing the second time. Note that Spawn
   --  and Non_Blocking_Spawn call Normalize_Arguments automatically, but
   --  since there is a guarantee that a second call does nothing, this
   --  internal call will have no effect if Normalize_Arguments is called
   --  before calling Spawn. The call to Normalize_Arguments assumes that
   --  the individual referenced arguments in Argument_List are on the heap,
   --  and may free them and reallocate if they are modified.

   procedure Spawn
     (Program_Name : String;
      Args         : Argument_List;
      Success      : out Boolean);
   --  The first parameter of function Spawn is the name of the executable.
   --  The second parameter contains the arguments to be passed to the
   --  program. Success is False if the named program could not be spawned
   --  or its execution completed unsuccessfully. Note that the caller will
   --  be blocked until the execution of the spawned program is complete.
   --  For maximum portability, use a full path name for the Program_Name
   --  argument. On some systems (notably Unix systems) a simple file
   --  name may also work (if the executable can be located in the path).
   --
   --  "Spawn" should not be used in tasking applications.
   --
   --  Note: Arguments in Args that contain spaces and/or quotes such as
   --  "--GCC=gcc -v" or "--GCC=""gcc -v""" are not portable across all
   --  operating systems, and would not have the desired effect if they
   --  were passed directly to the operating system. To avoid this problem,
   --  Spawn makes an internal call to Normalize_Arguments, which ensures
   --  that such arguments are modified in a manner that ensures that the
   --  desired effect is obtained on all operating systems. The caller may
   --  call Normalize_Arguments explicitly before the call (e.g. to print
   --  out the exact form of arguments passed to the operating system). In
   --  this case the guarantee a second call to Normalize_Arguments has no
   --  effect ensures that the internal call will not affect the result.
   --  Note that the implicit call to Normalize_Arguments may free and
   --  reallocate some of the individual arguments.
   --
   --  This function will always set Success to False under VxWorks and
   --  other similar operating systems which have no notion of the concept
   --  of a dynamically executable file.

   function Spawn
     (Program_Name : String;
      Args         : Argument_List)
      return         Integer;
   --  Similar to the above procedure, but returns the actual status returned
   --  by the operating system, or -1 under VxWorks and any other similar
   --  operating systems which have no notion of separately spawnable programs.
   --
   --  "Spawn" should not be used in tasking applications.

   procedure Spawn
     (Program_Name           : String;
      Args                   : Argument_List;
      Output_File_Descriptor : File_Descriptor;
      Return_Code            : out Integer;
      Err_To_Out             : Boolean := True);
   --  Similar to the procedure above, but redirects the output to
   --  the file designated by Output_File_Descriptor. If Err_To_Out
   --  is True, then the Standard Error output is also redirected.
   --
   --  Return_Code is set to the status code returned by the operating
   --  system as described above.
   --
   --  "Spawn" should not be used in tasking applications.

   procedure Spawn
     (Program_Name  : String;
      Args          : Argument_List;
      Output_File   : String;
      Success       : out Boolean;
      Return_Code   : out Integer;
      Err_To_Out    : Boolean := True);
   --  Similar to the procedure above, but saves the output of the command
   --  to a file with the name Output_File.
   --
   --  Success is set to True if the command is executed and its output
   --  successfully written to the file. If Success is True, then
   --  Return_Code will be set to the status code returned by the
   --  operating system. Otherwise, Return_Code is undefined.
   --
   --  "Spawn" should not be used in tasking applications.

   type Process_Id is private;
   --  A private type used to identify a process activated by the following
   --  non-blocking call. The only meaningful operation on this type is a
   --  comparison for equality.

   Invalid_Pid : constant Process_Id;
   --  A special value used to indicate errors, as described below.

   function Non_Blocking_Spawn
     (Program_Name : String;
      Args         : Argument_List)
      return         Process_Id;
   --  This is a non blocking call. The Process_Id of the spawned process
   --  is returned. Parameters are to be used as in Spawn. If Invalid_Id
   --  is returned the program could not be spawned.
   --
   --  "Non_Blocking_Spawn" should not be used in tasking applications.
   --
   --  This function will always return Invalid_Id under VxWorks, since
   --  there is no notion of executables under this OS.

   procedure Wait_Process (Pid : out Process_Id; Success : out Boolean);
   --  Wait for the completion of any of the processes created by previous
   --  calls to Non_Blocking_Spawn. The caller will be suspended until one
   --  of these processes terminates (normally or abnormally). If any of
   --  these subprocesses terminates prior to the call to Wait_Process (and
   --  has not been returned by a previous call to Wait_Process), then the
   --  call to Wait_Process is immediate. Pid identifies the process that
   --  has terminated (matching the value returned from Non_Blocking_Spawn).
   --  Success is set to True if this sub-process terminated successfully.
   --  If Pid = Invalid_Id, there were no subprocesses left to wait on.
   --
   --  This function will always set success to False under VxWorks, since
   --  there is no notion of executables under this OS.

   function Argument_String_To_List
     (Arg_String : String)
      return       Argument_List_Access;
   --  Take a string that is a program and its arguments and parse it into
   --  an Argument_List. Note that the result is allocated on the heap, and
   --  must be freed by the programmer (when it is no longer needed) to avoid
   --  memory leaks.

   -------------------
   -- Miscellaneous --
   -------------------

   function Getenv (Name : String) return String_Access;
   --  Get the value of the environment variable. Returns an access
   --  to the empty string if the environment variable does not exist
   --  or has an explicit null value (in some operating systems these
   --  are distinct cases, in others they are not; this interface
   --  abstracts away that difference. The argument is allocated on
   --  the heap (even in the null case), and needs to be freed explicitly
   --  when no longer needed to avoid memory leaks.

   procedure Setenv (Name : String; Value : String);
   --  Set the value of the environment variable Name to Value. This call
   --  modifies the current environment, but does not modify the parent
   --  process environment. After a call to Setenv, Getenv (Name) will
   --  always return a String_Access referencing the same String as Value.
   --  This is true also for the null string case (the actual effect may
   --  be to either set an explicit null as the value, or to remove the
   --  entry, this is operating system dependent). Note that any following
   --  calls to Spawn will pass an environment to the spawned process that
   --  includes the changes made by Setenv calls. This procedure is not
   --  available under VMS.

   procedure OS_Exit (Status : Integer);
   pragma Import (C, OS_Exit, "__gnat_os_exit");
   pragma No_Return (OS_Exit);
   --  Exit to OS with given status code (program is terminated)

   procedure OS_Abort;
   pragma Import (C, OS_Abort, "abort");
   pragma No_Return (OS_Abort);
   --  Exit to OS signalling an abort (traceback or other appropriate
   --  diagnostic information should be given if possible, or entry made
   --  to the debugger if that is possible).

   function Errno return Integer;
   pragma Import (C, Errno, "__get_errno");
   --  Return the task-safe last error number.

   procedure Set_Errno (Errno : Integer);
   pragma Import (C, Set_Errno, "__set_errno");
   --  Set the task-safe error number.

   Directory_Separator : constant Character;
   --  The character that is used to separate parts of a pathname.

   Path_Separator : constant Character;
   --  The character to separate paths in an environment variable value.

private
   pragma Import (C, Path_Separator, "__gnat_path_separator");
   pragma Import (C, Directory_Separator, "__gnat_dir_separator");

   type OS_Time is new Long_Integer;
   --  Type used for timestamps in the compiler. This type is used to
   --  hold time stamps, but may have a different representation than
   --  C's time_t. This type needs to match the declaration of OS_Time
   --  in adaint.h.

   --  Add pragma Inline statements for comparison operations on OS_Time.
   --  It would actually be nice to use pragma Import (Intrinsic) here,
   --  but this was not properly supported till GNAT 3.15a, so that would
   --  cause bootstrap path problems. To be changed later ???

   Invalid_Time : constant OS_Time := -1;
   --  This value should match the return valud by __gnat_file_time_*

   pragma Inline ("<");
   pragma Inline (">");
   pragma Inline ("<=");
   pragma Inline (">=");

   type Process_Id is new Integer;
   Invalid_Pid : constant Process_Id := -1;

end GNAT.OS_Lib;