The fuser function reports a list of PIDs and UIDs that are associated with a specified file, file system, and/or the devices that are attached to them. The fuser function can report back additional i...
The getaddressconf() function fills in the array of structures pointed to by the buffer parameter with information describing the configuration of process address space on the system. This information...
Using both the getcontext() and setcontext() functions enables you to initiate user level context control, switching between multiple threads of control within a single process. When you call getconte...
The getdirentries() function reads directory entries from a directory into a buffer. The entries are returned as dirent structures, a file-system independent format. Caution This call is not the POSIX...
The getdomainname system call returns the domain name of the current host, as set by setdomainname. The setdomainname system call sets the domain of the host machine to be name, which has a length spe...
The getdtablesize() function returns the maximum number of file descriptors in a process' descriptor table. Each process has a fixed size descriptor table that is guaranteed to have at least 64 slots...
The getgid() function returns the real group ID of the calling process. The getegid() function returns the effective group ID of the calling process. The real group ID is specified at login time. The ...
The getfh() function returns a file handle for the specified file or directory in the file handle pointed to by the fhp parameter. This function is restricted to the root user.
The getfsstat() function returns information about all mounted file systems. Upon successful completion, the buffer pointed to by the buf parameter is filled with an array of statfs structures, one fo...
The getgid() function returns the real group ID of the calling process. The getegid() function returns the effective group ID of the calling process. The real group ID is specified at login time. The ...
The getgroups() function gets the current supplementary group IDs of the calling process. The list is stored in the array pointed to by the grouplist parameter. The gidsetsize parameter indicates the ...
The gethostid() function allows a process to retrieve the 32-bit identifier for the current host. The host ID is stored in network standard byte order and is set either by the hostid(1) command or the...
The gethostname() function retrieves the host name of the local host as it is configured on the system. If a fullyqualified domain name is configured as the host name, that name is returned. If suffic...
The getitimer() function returns the current value for the timer specified by the which parameter in the structure pointed to by the value parameter. The setitimer() function sets the timer specified ...
