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Mostly platform-specific functionality
Modules
aio
POSIX Asynchronous I/O
event
event
inotify
Monitoring API for filesystem events.
ioctl
Provide helpers for making ioctl system calls.
fs
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.
poll
Portably monitor a group of file descriptors for readiness.
zerocopy
Send data from a file to a socket, bypassing userland.
Operating system signals.
signal
Interface for the signalfd
syscall.
socket
Socket interface functions
fs
fs
Get filesystem statistics, non-portably
fs
Get filesystem statistics
term
An interface for controlling asynchronous communication ports
time
Timer API via signals.
time
Timer API via file descriptors.
uio
Vectored I/O
feature
Get system identification
process
Wait for a process to change status