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link(2) -- make a hard file link
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The link() function call atomically creates the specified directory entry (hard link) name2 with the attributes of the underlying object pointed at by name1. If the link is successful: the link count ... |
listen(2) -- listen for connections on a socket
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To accept connections, a socket is first created with socket(2), a willingness to accept incoming connections and a queue limit for incoming connections are specified with listen(), and then the conne... |
lseek(2) -- reposition read/write file offset
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The lseek() function repositions the offset of the file descriptor fildes to the argument offset according to the directive whence. The argument fildes must be an open file descriptor. lseek() reposit... |
lstat(2) -- get file status
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The stat() function obtains information about the file pointed to by path. Read, write or execute permission of the named file is not required, but all directories listed in the path name leading to t... |
lutimes(2) -- set file access and modification times
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The access and modification times of the file named by path or referenced by fd are changed as specified by the argument times. If times is NULL, the access and modification times are set to the curre... |
m68k_sync_icache(2) -- instruction cache synchronization
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m68k_sync_icache() synchronizes data and instruction caches over the specified region. It should be called prior to executing newly generated code. The affected address range starts at start and conti... |
madvise(2) -- give advice about use of memory
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The madvise() system call allows a process that has knowledge of its memory behavior to describe it to the system. The known behaviors are given in : #define MADV_NORMAL 0 /* no further sp... |
mincore(2) -- determine residency of memory pages
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The mincore() system call allows a process to obtain information about whether pages are core resident. The status of the memory range is returned in the character-per-page array vec. If the page is r... |
minherit(2) -- control the inheritance of pages
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The minherit() system call changes the specified range of virtual addresses to have the specified fork-time inheritance characteristic inherit, which can be set to MAP_INHERIT_NONE, MAP_INHERIT_COPY, ... |
mkdir(2) -- make a directory file
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The directory path is created with the access permissions specified by mode and restricted by the umask(2) of the calling process. The directory's owner ID is set to the process's effective user ID.... |
mkfifo(2) -- make a fifo file
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mkfifo() creates a new fifo file with name path. The access permissions are specified by mode and restricted by the umask(2) of the calling process. The fifo's owner ID is set to the process's effec... |
mknod(2) -- make a special file node
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The device special file path is created with the major and minor device numbers extracted from mode. The access permissions of path are descendant from the umask(2) of the parent process. If mode indi... |
mlock(2) -- lock (unlock) physical pages in memory
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The mlock system call locks into memory the physical pages associated with the virtual address range starting at addr for len bytes. The munlock call unlocks pages previously locked by one or more mlo... |