Module nix::unistd

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

Modules

• alarm
  Alarm signal scheduling.

Structs

• Pid
  Process identifier

Enums

• ForkResult
  Represents the successful result of calling fork

Functions

• close
  Close a raw file descriptor
• daemon
  Daemonize this process by detaching from the controlling terminal (see daemon(3)).
• 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)).
• 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)).
• 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).
• pause
  Suspend the thread until a signal is received.
• pipe
  Create an interprocess channel.
• 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
• write
  Write to a raw file descriptor.