Module nix::sys

Mostly platform-specific functionality

Modules

• aio
  POSIX Asynchronous I/O
• epoll
• eventfd
  Event file descriptor.
• fanotify
  Monitoring API for filesystem events.
• inotify
  Monitoring API for filesystem events.
• ioctl
  Provide helpers for making ioctl system calls.
• memfd
  Interfaces for managing memory-backed files.
• mman
  Memory management declarations.
• personality
  Process execution domains
• prctl
  prctl is a Linux-only API for performing operations on a process or thread.
• pthread
  Low level threading primitives
• ptrace
  Provides helpers for making ptrace system calls
• quota
  Set and configure disk quotas for users, groups, or projects.
• reboot
  Reboot/shutdown
• resource
  Configure the process resource limits.
• select
  Portably monitor a group of file descriptors for readiness.
• sendfile
  Send data from a file to a socket, bypassing userland.
• signal
  Operating system signals.
• signalfd
  Interface for the signalfd syscall.
• socket
  Socket interface functions
• stat
• statfs
  Get filesystem statistics, non-portably
• statvfs
  Get filesystem statistics
• sysinfo
• termios
  An interface for controlling asynchronous communication ports
• time
• timer
  Timer API via signals.
• timerfd
  Timer API via file descriptors.
• uio
  Vectored I/O
• utsname
  Get system identification
• wait
  Wait for a process to change status