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            <h1>PseudoTerminalHelpers</h1>
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                  <pre class="highlight swift"><code><span class="kd">public</span> <span class="kd">class</span> <span class="kt">PseudoTerminalHelpers</span></code></pre>

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            <p>APIs to assist in controlling a Unix pseudo-terminal from Swift, it provides a wrapper for
the libc <code>forkpty</code>API in the form of <code>fork(andExec:args:env:desiredWindowSize:</code> method,
<code>setWinSize</code> and <code>availableBytes</code></p>

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                        <p>This method both forks and executes the provided command under a Pseudo Terminal, and returns both the process ID and the file descriptor for the pseudo-terminal</p>

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                          <pre class="highlight swift"><code><span class="kd">public</span> <span class="kd">static</span> <span class="kd">func</span> <span class="nf">fork</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">andExec</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="kt">String</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nv">args</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="kt">String</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="nv">env</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="kt">String</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="nv">desiredWindowSize</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="k">inout</span> <span class="n">winsize</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">-&gt;</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">pid</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">pid_t</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nv">masterFd</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="kt">Int32</span><span class="p">)?</span></code></pre>

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                                <em>andExec</em>
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                                  <p>the name of the executable to run</p>
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                                  <p>arguments to be passed to the executable</p>
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                                  <p>the environment variables for the child process</p>
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                                <em>desiredWindowSize</em>
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                                  <p>the window size that will be set on the pseudo terminal.</p>
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                        <p>Sets the window size of the underlying pseudo terminal.</p>

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                          <pre class="highlight swift"><code><span class="kd">public</span> <span class="kd">static</span> <span class="kd">func</span> <span class="nf">setWinSize</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">masterPtyDescriptor</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="kt">Int32</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nv">windowSize</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="k">inout</span> <span class="n">winsize</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">-&gt;</span> <span class="kt">Int32</span></code></pre>

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                                <em>masterPtyDescriptor</em>
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                                  <p>a pseudo-terminal master file descriptor, as returned by fork(andExec:)</p>
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                        <h4>Return Value</h4>
                        <p>the value from calling the ioctl</p>
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                        <p>Returns the number of available bytes to be read from the file descriptor</p>

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                          <pre class="highlight swift"><code><span class="kd">public</span> <span class="kd">static</span> <span class="kd">func</span> <span class="nf">availableBytes</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">fd</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="kt">Int32</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">-&gt;</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">status</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="kt">Int32</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nv">size</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="kt">Int32</span><span class="p">)</span></code></pre>

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