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Module sys

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Mostly platform-specific functionality

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  • Provide helpers for making ioctl system calls.
  • Interfaces for managing memory-backed files.
  • Memory management declarations.
  • Process execution domains
  • prctl is a Linux-only API for performing operations on a process or thread.
  • Configure the process resource limits.
  • Operating system signals.
  • Interface for the signalfd syscall.
  • Socket interface functions
  • Get filesystem statistics, non-portably
  • Get filesystem statistics
  • Timer API via signals.
  • Timer API via file descriptors.
  • Vectored I/O
  • Get system identification
  • Wait for a process to change status