Amiga Unix — 68040 · 68060

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System calls (2)

accessdetermine accessibility of a file
acctenable or disable process accounting
adjtimecorrect the time to allow synchronization of the system clock
alarmset a process alarm clock
brkchange data segment space allocation
chdirchange working directory
chmodchange mode of file
chownchange owner and group of a file
chrootchange root directory
closeclose a file descriptor
creatcreate a new file or rewrite an existing one
dupduplicate an open file descriptor
execexecute a file
exitterminate process
fcntlfile control
forkcreate a new process
fpathconfget configurable pathname variables
fsyncsynchronize a file's in-memory state with that on the physical medium
getcontextget and set current user context
getdentsread directory entries and put in a file system independent format
getgroupsget or set supplementary group access list IDs
getmsgget next message off a stream
getpidget process, process group, and parent process IDs
getrlimitcontrol maximum system resource consumption
getsidget session ID
getuidget real user, effective user, real group, and effective group IDs
introintroduction to system calls and error numbers
ioctlcontrol device
killsend a signal to a process or a group of processes
linklink to a file
lseekmove read/write file pointer
memcntlmemory management control
mincoredetermine residency of memory pages
mkdirmake a directory
mknodmake a directory, or a special or ordinary file
mmapmap pages of memory
mountmount a file system
mprotectset protection of memory mapping
msgctlmessage control operations
msggetget message queue
msgopmessage operations
munmapunmap pages of memory.
nicechange priority of a time-sharing process
openopen for reading or writing
pausesuspend process until signal
pipecreate an interprocess channel
plocklock into memory or unlock process, text, or data
pollinput/output multiplexing
priocntlprocess scheduler control
priocntlsetgeneralized process scheduler control
profilexecution time profile
ptraceprocess trace
putmsgsend a message on a stream
readread from file
readlinkread the value of a symbolic link
renamechange the name of a file
rmdirremove a directory
semctlsemaphore control operations
semgetget set of semaphores
semopsemaphore operations
setpgidset process group ID
setpgrpset process group ID
setsidset session ID
setuidset user and group IDs
shmctlshared memory control operations
shmgetget shared memory segment identifier
shmopshared memory operations
sigactiondetailed signal management
sigaltstackset or get signal alternate stack context
signalsimplified signal management
sigpendingexamine signals that are blocked and pending
sigprocmaskchange or examine signal mask
sigsendsend a signal to a process or a group of processes
sigsuspendinstall a signal mask and suspend process until signal
statget file status
statvfsget file system information
stimeset time
swapctlmanage swap space
symlinkmake a symbolic link to a file
syncupdate super block
sysfsget file system type information
sysinfoget and set system information strings
sysm68kmachine-specific functions
termiosgeneral terminal interface
timeget time
timesget process and child process times
uadminadministrative control
ulimitget and set user limits
umaskset and get file creation mask
umountunmount a file system
unameget name of current UNIX system
unlinkremove directory entry
ustatget file system statistics
utimeset file access and modification times
vforkspawn new process in a virtual memory efficient way
waitwait for child process to stop or terminate
waitidwait for child process to change state
waitpidwait for child process to change state
writewrite on a file