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+/* Support functions related to (pseudo)terminals.
+   Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   This file is part of the GNU C Library.
+
+   The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+   modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+   License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+   version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+   The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+   Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+   License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
+   <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
+
+#ifndef _SUPPORT_TTY_H
+#define _SUPPORT_TTY_H 1
+
+struct termios;
+struct winsize;
+
+/** Open a pseudoterminal pair.  The outer fd is written to the address
+    A_OUTER and the inner fd to A_INNER.
+
+    If A_NAME is not NULL, it will be set to point to a string naming
+    the /dev/pts/NNN device corresponding to the inner fd; space for
+    this string is allocated with malloc and should be freed by the
+    caller when no longer needed.  (This is different from the libutil
+    function 'openpty'.)
+
+    If TERMP is not NULL, the terminal parameters will be initialized
+    according to the termios structure it points to.
+
+    If WINP is not NULL, the terminal window size will be set
+    accordingly.
+
+    Terminates the process on failure (like xmalloc).  */
+extern void support_openpty (int *a_outer, int *a_inner, char **a_name,
+                             const struct termios *termp,
+                             const struct winsize *winp);
+
+#endif