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