• 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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  • File and Directory Operations Pipes C Library (Standard C) I/O Port Interface and Control Process Triggers POSIX.1b: Real-time extensions (IEEE Std 1003...
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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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  • 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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  • original ANSI C standard, it was developed at the same time as the C library POSIX specification, which is a superset of it. Since ANSI C was adopted by...
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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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  • Glob (programming) (category C POSIX library)
    shell scripts. The POSIX-mandated case statement in shells provides pattern-matching using glob patterns. Some shells (such as the C shell and Bash) support...
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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 without the variable being satisfied. It is referred...
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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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    Stat (system call) (category C POSIX library)
    addition of group permissions and larger file size. The C POSIX library header sys/stat.h, found on POSIX and other Unix-like operating systems, declares the...
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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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  • Write (system call) (category C POSIX library)
    https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl POSIX write C_Programming/C_Reference/stdio.h/fwrite at Wikibooks...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Getaddrinfo (category C POSIX library)
    operating system's networking API. Both functions are contained in the POSIX standard application programming interface (API). getaddrinfo and getnameinfo...
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  • 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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  • Fork–exec (category C POSIX library)
    Fork–exec is a commonly used technique in Unix whereby an executing process spawns a new program. fork() is the name of the system call that the parent...
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  • Sigaction (category C POSIX library)
    In computing, sigaction is a function API defined by POSIX to give the programmer access to what should be a program's behavior when receiving specific...
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  • (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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  • standard library are allowed to be implemented by macros, which is not allowed by ISO C++. Boost (C++ libraries) C POSIX library C standard library Standard...
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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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  • Mmap (category C POSIX library)
    In computing, mmap(2) is a POSIX-compliant Unix system call that maps files or devices into memory. It is a method of memory-mapped file I/O. It implements...
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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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  • Iconv (category C POSIX library)
    Standard C Library (included since version 2.1, February 1999), or the more traditional GNU libiconv, for systems based on other Standard C Libraries. The...
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  • Poll (Unix) (category C POSIX library)
    poll is a POSIX system call to wait for one or more file descriptors to become ready for use. On *BSD and macOS, it has been largely superseded by kqueue...
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  • Select (Unix) (category C POSIX library)
    system call and application programming interface (API) in Unix-like and POSIX-compliant operating systems for examining the status of file descriptors...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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