Module nix::sys

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Mostly platform-specific functionality

Modules§

aioaio
POSIX Asynchronous I/O
epollevent
eventfdevent
fanotifyfanotify
Monitoring API for filesystem events.
inotifyinotify
Monitoring API for filesystem events.
ioctlioctl
Provide helpers for making ioctl system calls.
memfdfs
Interfaces for managing memory-backed files.
mmanmman
Memory management declarations.
personalitypersonality
Process execution domains
prctlprocess
prctl is a Linux-only API for performing operations on a process or thread.
pthreadpthread
Low level threading primitives
ptraceptrace
Provides helpers for making ptrace system calls
quotaquota
Set and configure disk quotas for users, groups, or projects.
rebootreboot
Reboot/shutdown
resourceresource
Configure the process resource limits.
selectpoll
Portably monitor a group of file descriptors for readiness.
sendfilezerocopy
Send data from a file to a socket, bypassing userland.
signal
Operating system signals.
signalfdsignal
Interface for the signalfd syscall.
socketsocket
Socket interface functions
statfs
statfsfs
Get filesystem statistics, non-portably
statvfsfs
Get filesystem statistics
sysinfo
termiosterm
An interface for controlling asynchronous communication ports
time
timertime
Timer API via signals.
timerfdtime
Timer API via file descriptors.
uiouio
Vectored I/O
utsnamefeature
Get system identification
waitprocess
Wait for a process to change status