Available on Unix only.
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Mostly platform-specific functionality
Modulesยง
- aio
aio - POSIX Asynchronous I/O
- epoll
event - eventfd
event - Event file descriptor.
- fanotify
fanotify - Monitoring API for filesystem events.
- inotify
inotify - Monitoring API for filesystem events.
- ioctl
ioctl - Provide helpers for making ioctl system calls.
- memfd
fs - Interfaces for managing memory-backed files.
- mman
mman - Memory management declarations.
- personality
personality - Process execution domains
- prctl
process - prctl is a Linux-only API for performing operations on a process or thread.
- pthread
pthread - Low level threading primitives
- ptrace
ptrace - Provides helpers for making ptrace system calls
- quota
quota - Set and configure disk quotas for users, groups, or projects.
- reboot
reboot - Reboot/shutdown
- resource
resource - Configure the process resource limits.
- select
poll - Portably monitor a group of file descriptors for readiness.
- sendfile
zerocopy - Send data from a file to a socket, bypassing userland.
- signal
- Operating system signals.
- signalfd
signal - Interface for the
signalfdsyscall. - socket
socket - Socket interface functions
- stat
fs - statfs
fs - Get filesystem statistics, non-portably
- statvfs
fs - Get filesystem statistics
- sysinfo
linux_android - termios
term - An interface for controlling asynchronous communication ports
- time
- timer
time - Timer API via signals.
- timerfd
time - Timer API via file descriptors.
- uio
uio - Vectored I/O
- utsname
feature - Get system identification
- wait
process - Wait for a process to change status