Module nix::unistd

Safe wrappers around functions found in libc “unistd.h” header

Modules

alarm

Alarm signal scheduling.

Structs

AccessFlags

Options for access()

Pid

Process identifier

Enums

ForkResult

Represents the successful result of calling fork

LinkatFlags

Flags for linkat function.

UnlinkatFlags

Flags for unlinkat function.

Whence

Directive that tells lseek and lseek64 what the offset is relative to.

Functions

access

Checks the file named by path for accessibility according to the flags given by amode See access(2)

chdir

Change the current working directory of the calling process (see chdir(2)).

chroot

close

Close a raw file descriptor

daemon

Daemonize this process by detaching from the controlling terminal (see daemon(3)).

dup

Create a copy of the specified file descriptor (see dup(2)).

dup2

Create a copy of the specified file descriptor using the specified fd (see dup(2)).

dup3

Create a new copy of the specified file descriptor using the specified fd and flags (see dup(2)).

eaccess

Checks the file named by path for accessibility according to the flags given by mode using effective UID, effective GID and supplementary group lists.

execv

Replace the current process image with a new one (see exec(3)).

execve

Replace the current process image with a new one (see execve(2)).

execveat

Execute program relative to a directory file descriptor (see execveat(2)).

execvp

Replace the current process image with a new one and replicate shell PATH searching behavior (see exec(3)).

execvpe

Replace the current process image with a new one and replicate shell PATH searching behavior (see execvpe(3)).

faccessat

Checks the file named by path for accessibility according to the flags given by mode

fchdir

Change the current working directory of the process to the one given as an open file descriptor (see fchdir(2)).

fdatasync

Synchronize the data of a file

fexecve

Replace the current process image with a new one (see fexecve(2)).

fork^⚠

Create a new child process duplicating the parent process (see fork(2)).

fsync

Synchronize changes to a file

ftruncate

Truncate a file to a specified length

getcwd

Returns the current directory as a PathBuf

getpgid

getpgrp

Get the group id of the calling process (see getpgrp(3)).

getpid

Get the pid of this process (see getpid(2)).

getppid

Get the pid of this processes’ parent (see getpid(2)).

getsid

Get the process group ID of a session leader getsid(2).

gettid

Get the caller’s thread ID (see gettid(2).

isatty

linkat

Link one file to another file

lseek

Move the read/write file offset.

lseek64

mkdir

Creates new directory path with access rights mode. (see mkdir(2))

mkfifo

Creates new fifo special file (named pipe) with path path and access rights mode.

mkfifoat

Creates new fifo special file (named pipe) with path path and access rights mode.

mkstemp

Creates a regular file which persists even after process termination

pause

Suspend the thread until a signal is received.

pipe

Create an interprocess channel.

pipe2

Like pipe, but allows setting certain file descriptor flags.

pivot_root

read

Read from a raw file descriptor.

setpgid

Set a process group ID (see setpgid(2)).

setsid

Create new session and set process group id (see setsid(2)).

sleep

Suspend execution for an interval of time

symlinkat

Creates a symbolic link at path2 which points to path1.

sync

Commit filesystem caches to disk

syncfs

Commit filesystem caches containing file referred to by the open file descriptor fd to disk

truncate

Truncate a file to a specified length

unlink

Remove a directory entry

unlinkat

Remove a directory entry

write

Write to a raw file descriptor.