Module nix::sys

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Mostly platform-specific functionality

Modules

POSIX Asynchronous I/O
Monitoring API for filesystem events.
Provide helpers for making ioctl system calls.
Interfaces for managing memory-backed files.
Memory management declarations.
Low level threading primitives
Set and configure disk quotas for users, groups, or projects.
Reboot/shutdown or enable/disable Ctrl-Alt-Delete.
Configure the process resource limits.
Portably monitor a group of file descriptors for readiness.
Send data from a file to a socket, bypassing userland.
Operating system signals.
Interface for the signalfd syscall.
Socket interface functions
Get filesystem statistics, non-portably
Get filesystem statistics
An interface for controlling asynchronous communication ports
Timer API via file descriptors.
Vectored I/O
Get system identification
Wait for a process to change status