Module nix::sys

Mostly platform-specific functionality

Modules

• aioaio
  POSIX Asynchronous I/O
• eventevent
  Kernel event notification mechanism
• ioctlioctl
  Provide helpers for making ioctl system calls.
• mmanmman
  Memory management declarations.
• pthreadpthread
  Low level threading primitives
• ptraceptrace
  Provides helpers for making ptrace system calls
• 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.
• socketsocket
  Socket interface functions
• statfs
• statfsfs
  Get filesystem statistics, non-portably
• statvfsfs
  Get filesystem statistics
• termiosterm
  An interface for controlling asynchronous communication ports
• time
• uiouio
  Vectored I/O
• utsnamefeature
  Get system identification
• waitprocess
  Wait for a process to change status