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POSIX System Calls and Networking
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Conventions

Conventions employed by the POSIX interface.

Ports and File Descriptors

Scheme ``ports'' and Unix file descriptors

have different representations.

File System

stat, chown, chmod, etc.

User Information

Retrieving a user's GECOS (/etc/passwd) entry.

Time

gettimeofday, localtime, strftime, etc.

Runtime Environment

Accessing and modifying Guile's environment.

Processes

getuid, getpid, etc.

Signals

sigaction, kill, pause, alarm, etc.

Terminals and Ptys

ttyname, tcsetpgrp, etc.

Pipes

Communicating data between processes.

Networking

gethostbyaddr, getnetent, socket, bind, listen.

System Identification

`uname' and getting info about this machine.

Locales

setlocale, etc.