Module nix::sys

Mostly platform-specific functionality

Modules

• aioaio
  POSIX Asynchronous I/O
• epollevent
• eventfdevent
• fanotifyfanotify
  Monitoring API for filesystem events.
• inotifyinotify
  Monitoring API for filesystem events.
• ioctlioctl
  Provide helpers for making ioctl system calls.
• memfdfs
  Interfaces for managing memory-backed files.
• mmanmman
  Memory management declarations.
• personalitypersonality
  Process execution domains
• prctlprocess
  prctl is a Linux-only API for performing operations on a process or thread.
• pthreadpthread
  Low level threading primitives
• ptraceptrace
  Provides helpers for making ptrace system calls
• quotaquota
  Set and configure disk quotas for users, groups, or projects.
• rebootreboot
  Reboot/shutdown
• 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.
• signalfdsignal
  Interface for the signalfd syscall.
• socketsocket
  Socket interface functions
• statfs
• statfsfs
  Get filesystem statistics, non-portably
• statvfsfs
  Get filesystem statistics
• sysinfo
• termiosterm
  An interface for controlling asynchronous communication ports
• time
• timertime
  Timer API via signals.
• timerfdtime
  Timer API via file descriptors.
• uiouio
  Vectored I/O
• utsnamefeature
  Get system identification
• waitprocess
  Wait for a process to change status