Spotlight on Oracle 10.8 - Getting Started Guide

Determines the accessibility of a file.

Binds a name to a socket.

Changes the amount of space allocated for the data segment of the calling process.

Changes the working directory.

Releases access to a device.

Uses the Solaris fast IPC (inter-process communication) facility.

Executes a process image.

Uses file control options.

Creates a new process.

Gets file system information.

Gets the path name of the current working directory.

Gets a real user.

Gets the name of the peer socket.

Gets a process.

Controls the maximum consumption of system resources.

Gets the socket name.

Gets and sets the options on sockets.

Gets a real user.

Controls an I/O device such as a disk drive.

Performs kernel asynchronous I/O, which optimizes I/O to raw files.

Moves the read/write file pointer.

Puts a light-weight process to sleep in kernel mode.

Controls memory management.

Checks the virtual mapping for a memory-mapped device.

Unmaps pages of memory.

Gains access to a disk or other device.

Gains access to a disk or other device.

Creates an inter-process channel.

Performs I/O multiplexing — a driver for fast polling on many file descriptors.

Reads from a file.

Performs processor set operations.

Writes on a file or device.

Reads data from a device.

Reads from a file.

Resolves all symbolic links of a path name.

Performs calls to schedule or reschedule a thread on the CPU.

Uses the semaphore facility.

Sets the ID for a process group.

Controls the maximum consumption of system resources.

Gets and sets the options on sockets.

Uses the shared memory facility.

Performs detailed signal management.

Performs the low-level implementation of socket operations.

Gets file status.

Gets process times. (Used by the Oracle TIMED_STATISTIC option.)

Waits for a child process to stop or terminate.

Writes data to a device.

Writes on a file.

Gets file status.