Il ''catalogo'' delle System Call

Fra parentesi le chiamate raramente usate direttamente, in italico le chiamate obsolete. ' indica che l'interfaccia fornita dalla libreria C non coincide con quella della system call.

gestione processi

• fork, vfork
• (clone')
• execve
• exit
• wait, waitpid, wait3, wait4
• nice
• getpriority, setpriority

• getpid, getppid
• getpgio, setpgid
• getsid

gestione file

• open, creat
• read, write
• readv, writev
• pread, pwrite
• lseek
• close
• fcntl
• ioctl
• dup, dup2
• sendfile
• flock

gestione file system

• chdir, fchdir
• mkdir, rmdir
• getcwd'
• link, symlink, readlink, unlink, rename
• stat, lstat, fstat
• mknod
• chown, fchown, lchown
• chmod, fchmod, lchmod
• access
• mount, umount, umount2
• sync
• utime
• umask
• chroot
• ustat
• truncate, ftruncate
• statfs, fstatfs
• getfsuid, setfsuid
• (getdents)

gestione utenti

• getuid, setuid
• getgid, setgid
• geteuid, seteuid
• getreiud, setreuid
• getresuid, setresuid
• getresgid, setresgid
• getgroups, setgroups

debug/profiling

• ptrace
• times
• acct
• getrlimit, setrlimit, getrusage

segnali

• kill
• signal
• alarm
• pause
• sigaction
• sigprocmask
• sigsuspend
• sigpending
• getitimer, setitimer

attesa eventi

• select
• poll
• pselect
• ppoll

comunicazione

• pipe

memoria

• (brk)
• mmap, munmap
• mprotect
• mremap
• msync
• madvise
• getpagesize

tempo

• time
• gettimeofday, settimeofday
• adjtimex
• nanosleep

misc

• gethostname, sethostname
• getdomainname, setdomainname
• sched_yield
• reboot
• sysinfo, uname
• capget, capset

sysV IPC =

• shmget, shmat, shmctl
• semget, semop, semctl
• msgget, msgsnd, msgrcv, msgctl

== Berkeley socket

• socket
• bind
• listen
• accept
• connect
• sendto, recvfrom
• sendmsg, recvmsg
• sengmmsg, recvmmsg
• shutdown
• getsockname, getpeername
• socketpair
• getsockopt, setsockopt