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accept(2) -- Accept a new connection on a socket
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The accept() function extracts the first connection on the queue of pending connections, creates a new socket with the same properties as the specified socket, and allocates a new file descriptor for ... |
access(2) -- Determines the accessibility of a file
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The access() function checks for accessibility of the file specified by a pathname. Only access bits are checked. A directory may be indicated as writable by access(), but an attempt to open it for wr... |
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acct(2) -- Enables and disables process accounting
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The acct() function enables and disables UNIX process accounting. When enabled, process accounting produces an accounting record on behalf of each terminating process. The path parameter specifies the... |
adjtime(2) -- Correct the time to allow synchronization of the system clock
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The adjtime() function makes small adjustments to the system time (as returned by the gettimer() function), advancing or decreasing it by the time specified by the delta parameter of the timeval struc... |
aio_fsync(2) -- Asynchronously writes changes in a file to permanent storage
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The aio_fsync function asynchronously causes system buffers containing a file's modified data to be written to permanent storage. All modified data in the file indicated by the file descriptor in the... |
async_daemon(2) -- Create a local NFS asynchronous I/O server
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The use of the async_daemon() function is not supported in customer applications, and the interface is subject to change without notice. It is intended for use solely by nfsiod(8). The async_daemon() ... |
atexit(2) -- Terminate a process
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The atexit() function registers functions to be called at normal process termination for cleanup processing. The function adds a single exit handler to a list of handlers to be called at process termi... |
audcntl(2) -- audit control
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The audcntl system call provides control over flags offered by the audit subsystem. All requests, except where otherwise noted, are privileged. The following list describes the requests: The system au... |
audgen(2) -- generate an audit record
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The audgen system call generates an audit record. The argument event is an integer indicating the event type of the operation being audited (see audit.h). The value of event must be between one of the... |
bind(2) -- Bind a name to a socket
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The bind() function assigns an address to an unnamed socket. Sockets created with the socket() function are unnamed; they are identified only by their address family. A bind that references a UNIX dom... |
brk(2) -- Change space allocation
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The brk() function sets the lowest data segment location not used by the program (called the break) to addr. In the alternate function sbrk(), incr more bytes are added to the program's data space, a... |
bsd_signal(2) -- Interface to simplified signal facilities
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The bsd_signal() function provides a partially compatible interface for programs written to historical system interfaces. The handler function should be declared as follows (sig is the signal number).... |
chdir(2) -- Change the current directory
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The chdir() function changes the current directory to the directory indicated by the path parameter. If the path parameter refers to a symbolic link, the chdir() function sets the current directory to... |
chmod(2) -- Change file access permissions
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The chmod() function sets the access permissions of the file specified by the path parameter according to the bit pattern specified by the mode parameter. The fchmod() function sets the access permiss... |
chown(2) -- Change the owner and group IDs of a file
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The chown(), lchown() and fchown() functions change the owner and group of a file. A process can change the value of the owner ID of a file only if the process has superuser privilege. A process witho... |