Crate nix

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Rust friendly bindings to the various *nix system functions.

Modules are structured according to the C header file that they would be defined in.

Features

Nix uses the following Cargo features to enable optional functionality. They may be enabled in any combination.

  • acct - Process accounting
  • aio - POSIX AIO
  • dir - Stuff relating to directory iteration
  • env - Manipulate environment variables
  • event - Event-driven APIs, like kqueue and epoll
  • feature - Query characteristics of the OS at runtime
  • fs - File system functionality
  • hostname - Get and set the system’s hostname
  • inotify - Linux’s inotify file system notification API
  • ioctl - The ioctl syscall, and wrappers for many specific instances
  • kmod - Load and unload kernel modules
  • mman - Stuff relating to memory management
  • mount - Mount and unmount file systems
  • mqueue - POSIX message queues
  • net - Networking-related functionality
  • personality - Set the process execution domain
  • poll - APIs like poll and select
  • process - Stuff relating to running processes
  • pthread - POSIX threads
  • ptrace - Process tracing and debugging
  • quota - File system quotas
  • reboot - Reboot the system
  • resource - Process resource limits
  • sched - Manipulate process’s scheduling
  • socket - Sockets, whether for networking or local use
  • signal - Send and receive signals to processes
  • term - Terminal control APIs
  • time - Query the operating system’s clocks
  • ucontext - User thread context
  • uio - Vectored I/O
  • user - Stuff relating to users and groups
  • zerocopy - APIs like sendfile and copy_file_range

Re-exports

Modules

  • dirdir
    List directory contents
  • envenv
    Environment variables
  • errno
  • fcntl
  • featuresfeature
    Feature tests for OS functionality
  • ifaddrsnet
    Query network interface addresses
  • mountmount
    Mount file systems
  • netnet
    Functionality involving network interfaces
  • pollpoll
    Wait for events to trigger on specific file descriptors
  • ptyterm
    Create master and slave virtual pseudo-terminals (PTYs)
  • schedsched
    Execution scheduling
  • sys
    Mostly platform-specific functionality
  • timetime
  • unistd
    Safe wrappers around functions found in libc “unistd.h” header

Macros

  • cmsg_spacesocket and uio
    Create a buffer large enough for storing some control messages as returned by recvmsg.
  • ioctl_noneioctl
    Generates a wrapper function for an ioctl that passes no data to the kernel.
  • ioctl_none_badioctl
    Generates a wrapper function for a “bad” ioctl that passes no data to the kernel.
  • ioctl_readioctl
    Generates a wrapper function for an ioctl that reads data from the kernel.
  • ioctl_read_badioctl
    Generates a wrapper function for a “bad” ioctl that reads data from the kernel.
  • ioctl_read_bufioctl
    Generates a wrapper function for an ioctl that reads an array of elements from the kernel.
  • ioctl_readwriteioctl
    Generates a wrapper function for an ioctl that reads and writes data to the kernel.
  • ioctl_readwrite_badioctl
    Generates a wrapper function for a “bad” ioctl that reads and writes data to the kernel.
  • ioctl_readwrite_bufioctl
    Generates a wrapper function for an ioctl that reads and writes an array of elements to the kernel.
  • ioctl_write_bufioctl
    Generates a wrapper function for an ioctl that writes an array of elements to the kernel.
  • ioctl_write_intioctl
    Generates a wrapper function for a ioctl that writes an integer to the kernel.
  • ioctl_write_int_badioctl
    Generates a wrapper function for a “bad” ioctl that writes an integer to the kernel.
  • ioctl_write_ptrioctl
    Generates a wrapper function for an ioctl that writes data through a pointer to the kernel.
  • ioctl_write_ptr_badioctl
    Generates a wrapper function for a “bad” ioctl that writes data through a pointer to the kernel.
  • request_code_noneioctl
    Generate an ioctl request code for a command that passes no data.
  • request_code_readioctl
    Generate an ioctl request code for a command that reads.
  • request_code_readwriteioctl
    Generate an ioctl request code for a command that reads and writes.
  • request_code_writeioctl
    Generate an ioctl request code for a command that writes.
  • request_code_write_intioctl
    Generate an ioctl request code for a command that passes an integer

Traits

  • NixPath
    Common trait used to represent file system paths by many Nix functions.

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