The C POSIX library is a specification of a C standard library for POSIX systems. It was developed at the same time as the ANSI C standard. Some effort...
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Errors Timers File and Directory Operations Pipes C Library (Standard C) The POSIX terminal interface POSIX.1b: Real-time extensions (IEEE Std 1003.1b-1993...
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The Native POSIX Thread Library (NPTL) is an implementation of the POSIX Threads specification for the Linux operating system. Before the 2.6 version...
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from the original ANSI C standard, it was developed at the same time as the C POSIX library, which is a superset of it. Since ANSI C was adopted by the International...
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Pthreads (redirect from Posix threads)
In computing, POSIX Threads, commonly known as pthreads, is an execution model that exists independently from a programming language, as well as a parallel...
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Glob (programming) (category C POSIX library)
Unix-like systems C and C++ may include <glob.h> from the C POSIX library to use glob(). C++ itself does not have direct support for glob patterns, however...
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Getopt (category C POSIX library)
Getopt is a C library function used to parse command-line options of the Unix/POSIX style. It is a part of the POSIX specification, and is universal to...
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in the POSIX library typically have a C++ equivalent implementation, such as <regex> rather than <regex.h>. C standard library C POSIX library Standard...
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Fork (system call) (category C POSIX library)
required for compliance with the POSIX and Single UNIX Specification standards. It is usually implemented as a C standard library wrapper to the fork, clone...
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possible to load msvcrt for its partial POSIX support on Windows... POSIX posix = (POSIX) Native.loadLibrary("c", POSIX.class); // but it will still fail on...
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Open (system call) (category C POSIX library)
associates a hash with a file. The open call is standardized by the POSIX specification for C language: int open(const char *path, int oflag, .../*,mode_t mode...
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Close (system call) (category C POSIX library)
descriptor EINTR The function call was interrupted by a signal EIO An I/O error occurred POSIX close C_Programming/C_Reference/stdio.h/fclose at Wikibooks...
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Read (system call) (redirect from Read (POSIX))
In modern POSIX compliant operating systems, a program that needs to access data from a file stored in a file system uses the read system call. The file...
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Spawn (computing) (category C POSIX library)
compatibility with the C run-time library. The following error codes may be encountered: The posix_spawn(3p) and its sibling posix_spawnp can be used as...
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Write (system call) (category C POSIX library)
"Linux/Arch/X86/Entry/Syscalls/Syscall_64.TBL at master · torvalds/Linux". GitHub. POSIX write C_Programming/C_Reference/stdio.h/fwrite at Wikibooks...
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Dup (system call) (category C POSIX library)
an alias of the old one. The dup and dup2 calls are standardized by the POSIX specification. Similar(following the logic) to pointers, the new file description...
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Unistd.h (category C POSIX library)
In the C and C++ programming languages, unistd.h is the name of the header file that provides access to the POSIX operating system API. It is defined by...
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extension of the core language. In POSIX C, regular expressions are also available via the C POSIX library#regex.h. C++11 provides std::unique_ptr, and...
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Errno.h (category C standard library headers)
definitions from POSIX and GNU makes it even less portable than the sys_errlist table. The GNU C library (GLIBC) provides the additional POSIX error values...
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P.I.P.S. (redirect from P.I.P.S. Is POSIX on Symbian OS)
(recursive acronym) for Symbian software libraries, and means "P.I.P.S. Is POSIX on Symbian OS". It is intended to help C language programmers in migration of...
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Dynamic loading (redirect from Dynamically loaded library)
to void* for POSIX compliance. This requires compiler makers to implement a working cast for this case. If the contents of the library can be changed...
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Stat (system call) (category C POSIX library)
the system call via a command-line interface. The C POSIX library header sys/stat.h, found on POSIX and other Unix-like operating systems, declares stat()...
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Spurious wakeup (category C POSIX library)
In computing, a spurious wakeup occurs when a thread wakes up from waiting on a condition variable and finds that the condition is still unsatisfied. It...
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Unix time (redirect from POSIX time)
timestamps in C and C++. C's Unix time functions are defined as the system time API in the POSIX specification. The C standard library is used extensively...
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Berkeley sockets (redirect from POSIX sockets)
modification from a de facto standard into a component of the POSIX specification. The term POSIX sockets is essentially synonymous with Berkeley sockets,...
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Glibc (redirect from GNU C Library)
functionality required by ANSI C. By 1992, it had the ANSI C-1989 and POSIX.1-1990 functions implemented and work was under way on POSIX.2. In September 1995 Ulrich...
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POSIX and the Single UNIX Specification. Since many programs have been written in C, there are a wide variety of other libraries available. Libraries...
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dynamic link library (/MD or /MDd compiler option) to avoid possible problems. Although Microsoft's CRT implements a large subset of POSIX interfaces,...
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the C standard library. The focus of the development of the Linux API has been to provide the usable features of the specifications defined in POSIX in...
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implements only the POSIX.1 standard – also known as IEEE Std 1003.1-1990 or ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990 – primarily covering the kernel and C library programming interfaces...
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