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kevent(2) -- kernel event notification mechanism
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kqueue() provides a generic method of notifying the user when an event happens or a condition holds, based on the results of small pieces of kernel code termed ``filters''. A kevent is identified by... |
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kill(2) -- send signal to a process
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The kill() function sends the signal given by sig to pid, a process or a group of processes. sig may be one of the signals specified in sigaction(2) or it may be 0, in which case error checking is per... |
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kqueue(2) -- kernel event notification mechanism
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kqueue() provides a generic method of notifying the user when an event happens or a condition holds, based on the results of small pieces of kernel code termed ``filters''. A kevent is identified by... |
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ktrace(2) -- process tracing
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The ktrace() function enables or disables tracing of one or more processes. Users may only trace their own processes. Only the superuser can trace setuid or setgid programs. tracefile gives the pathna... |
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lchown(2) -- change owner and group of a file or link
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The owner ID and group ID of the file (or link) named by path or referenced by fd is changed as specified by the arguments owner and group. The owner of a file may change the group to a group of which... |
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link(2) -- make a hard file link
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The link() function 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 of th... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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 ... |
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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 possible behaviors are: MADV_NORMAL No further special treatment needed. MADV_RAN... |
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alpha/map_memory(2) -- Alpha devices I/O ports and memory access functions
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The functions in libalpha give userland programs access to the I/O ports on the OpenBSD/alpha platform. The in*() functions return data read from the specified I/O port. The out*() functions write dat... |
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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. Here the current core residency of the pages is returned in the character array vec, with a valu... |
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minherit(2) -- control the inheritance of pages
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The minherit() system call changes the specified pages to have the inheritance characteristic inherit, which can be set to MAP_INHERIT_NONE, MAP_INHERIT_COPY, or MAP_INHERIT_SHARE. Not all implementat... |
