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Mostly platform-specific functionality
Modules
aio
aio
POSIX Asynchronous I/O
epoll
event
eventfd
event
inotify
inotify
Monitoring API for filesystem events.
ioctl
ioctl
Provide helpers for making ioctl system calls.
memfd
fs
Interfaces for managing memory-backed files.
mman
mman
Memory management declarations.
personality
personality
Process execution domains
pthread
pthread
Low level threading primitives
ptrace
ptrace
quota
quota
Set and configure disk quotas for users, groups, or projects.
reboot
reboot
Reboot/shutdown or enable/disable Ctrl-Alt-Delete.
resource
resource
Configure the process resource limits.
select
poll
Portably monitor a group of file descriptors for readiness.
sendfile
zerocopy
Send data from a file to a socket, bypassing userland.
Operating system signals.
signalfd
signal
Interface for the
signalfd
syscall.socket
socket
Socket interface functions
stat
fs
statfs
fs
Get filesystem statistics, non-portably
statvfs
fs
Get filesystem statistics
termios
term
An interface for controlling asynchronous communication ports
timer
time
Timer API via signals.
timerfd
time
Timer API via file descriptors.
uio
uio
Vectored I/O
utsname
feature
Get system identification
wait
process
Wait for a process to change status