select is a system call and application programming interface (API) in Unix-like and POSIX-compliant operating systems for examining the status of file...

which is part of the Single UNIX Specification (SUS). These commands are implemented in many shells on modern Unix, Unix-like and other operating systems...

equipment manufacturer Select (aperitif), an Italian aperitif Select (SQL), a keyword in SQL select (Unix), a system call (in sys/select.h or unistd.h) for...

When a text file with a shebang is used as if it were an executable in a Unix-like operating system, the program loader mechanism parses the rest of the...

1970, the Unix epoch. For example, at midnight on 1 January 2010, Unix time was 1262304000. Unix time originated as the system time of Unix operating...

typically implemented using the statfs() or statvfs() system calls. The Single Unix Specification (SUS) specifies that space is reported in blocks of 512 bytes...

Research Unix refers to the early versions of the Unix operating system for DEC PDP-7, PDP-11, VAX and Interdata 7/32 and 8/32 computers, developed in...

input/output events from a single event loop, with system calls like poll and select (Unix). Multiple variable bit rate digital bit streams may be transferred efficiently...

executing in the same Unix or Unix-like operating system. The name Unix domain socket refers to the domain argument value AF_UNIX that is passed to the...

(PC architecture) Integer (computer science) kqueue Pull technology select (Unix) Signal (IPC) "Multi-Drop Polling". RAD Data Communications/Pulse Supply...

Single UNIX Specification (SUS) is a standard for computer operating systems, compliance with which is required to qualify for using the "UNIX" trademark...

interactive command interpreter and command programming language developed for Unix-like operating systems. Created in 1989 by Brian Fox for the GNU Project...

wc (short for word count) is a command in Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and Unix-like operating systems. The program reads either standard input or a list of...

for "GNU's Not Unix!", chosen because GNU's design is Unix-like, but differs from Unix by being free software and containing no Unix code. Stallman chose...

computing systems, the term daemon is used almost exclusively in the context of Unix-based systems. In other contexts, different terms are used for the same concept...

-s|--serial, select to append in serial rather than in parallel; that is, horizontal rather than vertical. The command was developed for Unix at Bell Labs...

UUCP (Unix-to-Unix Copy) is a suite of computer programs and protocols allowing remote execution of commands and transfer of files, email and netnews between...

programming language) and posted to mod.sources (which later became comp.sources.unix) in May 1985. patch was added to XPG4, which later became POSIX. Wall's code...

processing methods". nginx.org. poll – System Interfaces Reference, The Single UNIX Specification, Version 5 from The Open Group man-pages for poll(2) in FreeBSD...

Apple's first official Unix-based operating system, launched in 1988 and discontinued in 1995 with version 3.1.1. A/UX requires select 68k-based Macintosh...

received a copy of Unix. Professors and students at the university began adding software to the operating system and released it as BSD to select universities...

In Unix and Unix-like computer operating systems, a file descriptor (FD, less frequently fildes) is a process-unique identifier (handle) for a file or...

developed for Unix and later codified by POSIX and Single UNIX Specification, it is supported in many operating systems today, including Unix-like variants...

Guide to Unix has a page on the topic of: Commands comm: select or reject lines common to two files – Shell and Utilities Reference, The Single UNIX Specification...

Unix security refers to the means of securing a Unix or Unix-like operating system. A core security feature in these systems is the file system permissions...

In computing, cut is a command line utility on Unix and Unix-like operating systems which is used to extract sections from each line of input — usually...

Unix-like operating systems identify a user by a value called a user identifier, often abbreviated to user ID or UID. The UID, along with the group identifier...

selects strings from the whole file. The command is available in Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and Unix-like systems. It is part of the GNU Binary Utilities (binutils)...

In computer networking, STREAMS is the native framework in Unix System V for implementing character device drivers, network protocols, and inter-process...

System Activity Report (sar) is a Unix System V-derived system monitor command used to report on various system loads, including CPU activity, memory/paging...