Section 2

Index into this File Starting with these Letters:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Sections: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 N

- A -

ACCESS - check user's permissions for a file
ACCT - switch process accounting on or off
ADJTIMEX - tune kernel clock
ALARM - set an alarm clock for delivery of a signal

- B -

BDFLUSH - start, flush, or tune buffer-dirty-flush daemon
BIND - bind a name to a socket
BRK - change data segment size

- C -

CACHEFLUSH - flush contents of instruction and/or data cache
CAPGET - set/get process capabilities
CHDIR - change working directory
CHMOD - change permissions of a file
CHOWN - change ownership of a file
CHROOT - change root directory
CLONE - create a child process
CLOSE - close a file descriptor
CONNECT - initiate a connection on a socket
CREATE_MODULE - create a loadable module entry

- D -

DELETE_MODULE - delete a loadable module entry
DUP - duplicate a file descriptor

- E -

EXECVE - execute program

- F -

FCNTL - manipulate file descriptor
FDATASYNC - synchronize a file's in-core data with that on disk
FLOCK - apply or remove an advisory lock on an open file
FORK - create a child process
FSYNC - synchronize a file's complete in-core state with that on disk

- G -

GETCONTEXT - get or set the user context
GETDENTS - get directory entries
GETDOMAINNAME - get/set domain name
GETDTABLESIZE - get descriptor table size
GETGID - get group identity
GETGROUPS - get/set list of supplementary group IDs
GETHOSTID - get or set the unique identifier of the current host
GETHOSTNAME - get/set host name
GETITIMER - get or set value of an interval timer
GETPAGESIZE - get memory page size
GETPEERNAME - get name of connected peer socket
GETPID - get process identification
GETPRIORITY - get/set program scheduling priority
GETRESUID - get real, effective and saved user or group ID
GETRLIMIT - get/set resource limits and usage
GETSID - get session ID
GETSOCKNAME - get socket name
GETSOCKOPT - get and set options on sockets
GETTIMEOFDAY - get / set time
GETUID - get user identity
GETXATTR - retrieve an extended attribute value
GET_KERNEL_SYMS - retrieve exported kernel and module symbols
GET_PRIORITY_MAX - get static priority range

- I -

IDLE - make process 0 idle
INIT_MODULE - initialize a loadable module entry
INTRO - Introduction to system calls
IOCTL - control device
IOCTL_LIST - list of ioctl calls in Linux/i386 kernel
IOPERM - set port input/output permissions
IOPL - change I/O privilege level
IPC - System V IPC system calls

- K -

KILL - send signal to a process
KILLPG - send signal to a process group

- L -

LINK - make a new name for a file
LISTEN - listen for connections on a socket
LISTXATTR - list extended attribute names
LLSEEK - reposition read/write file offset
LSEEK - reposition read/write file offset

- M -

MADVISE - give advice about use of memory
MINCORE - get information on whether pages are in core
MKDIR - create a directory
MKNOD - create a special or ordinary file
MLOCK - disable paging for some parts of memory
MLOCKALL - disable paging for calling process
MMAP - map or unmap files or devices into memory
MMAP2 - map files or devices into memory
MODIFY_LDT - get or set ldt
MOUNT - mount and unmount filesystems.
MPROTECT - control allowable accesses to a region of memory
MREMAP - re-map a virtual memory address
MSGCTL - message control operations
MSGGET - get a message queue identifier
MSGOP - message operations
MSYNC - synchronize a file with a memory map
MUNLOCK - reenable paging for some parts of memory
MUNLOCKALL - reenable paging for calling process

- N -

NANOSLEEP - pause execution for a specified time
NFSSERVCTL - syscall interface to kernel nfs daemon
NICE - change process priority

- O -

OBSOLETE - obsolete system calls
OPEN - open and possibly create a file or device
OUTB - port output

- P -

PAUSE - wait for signal
PERSONALITY - set the process execution domain
PIPE - create pipe
PIVOT_ROOT - change the root file system
POLL - wait for some event on a file descriptor
PRCTL - operations on a process
PREAD - read from or write to a file descriptor at a given offset
PTRACE - process trace

- Q -

QUERY_MODULE - query the kernel for various bits pertaining to modules.
QUOTACTL - manipulate disk quotas

- R -

READ - read from a file descriptor
READDIR - read directory entry
READLINK - read value of a symbolic link
READV - read or write a vector
REBOOT - reboot or enable/disable Ctrl-Alt-Del
RECV - receive a message from a socket
REMOVEXATTR - remove an extended attribute
RENAME - change the name or location of a file
RMDIR - delete a directory
RR_GET_INTERVAL - get the SCHED_RR interval for the named process

- S -

SCHED_SETPARAM - set and get scheduling parameters
SELECT - synchronous I/O multiplexing
SELECT_TUT - synchronous I/O multiplexing
SEMCTL - semaphore control operations
SEMGET - get a semaphore set identifier
SEMOP - semaphore operations
SEND - send a message from a socket
SENDFILE - transfer data between file descriptors
SETEUID - set effective user or group ID
SETFSGID - set group identity used for file system checks
SETFSUID - set user identity used for file system checks
SETGID - set group identity
SETPGID - set/get process group
SETRESUID - set real, effective and saved user or group ID
SETREUID - set real and/or effective user or group ID
SETSCHEDULER - yield the processor
SETSID - creates a session and sets the process group ID
SETUID - set user identity
SETUP - setup devices and file systems, mount root file system
SETXATTR - set an extended attribute value
SHMCTL - shared memory control
SHMGET - allocates a shared memory segment
SHMOP - shared memory operations
SHUTDOWN - shut down part of a full-duplex connection
SIGACTION - POSIX signal handling functions.
SIGALTSTACK - get or set alternate signal stack content
SIGBLOCK - manipulate the signal mask
SIGNAL - ANSI C signal handling
SIGPAUSE - atomically release blocked signals and wait for interrupt
SIGQUEUE - queue a signal and data to a process
SIGRETURN - return from signal handler and cleanup stack frame
SIGVEC - BSD software signal facilities
SIGWAITINFO - synchronously wait for queued signals
SOCKET - create an endpoint for communication
SOCKETPAIR - create a pair of connected sockets
STAT - get file status
STATFS - get file system statistics
STIME - set time
SWAPON - start/stop swapping to file/device
SYMLINK - make a new name for a file
SYNC - commit buffer cache to disk.
SYSCALL - syscall
SYSCALLS - list of all system calls
SYSCTL - read/write system parameters
SYSFS - get file system type information
SYSINFO - returns information on overall system statistics
SYSLOG - read and/or clear kernel message ring buffer; set console_loglevel

- T -

TIME - get time in seconds
TIMES - get process times
TRUNCATE - truncate a file to a specified length
TUX - interact with the TUX kernel subsystem

- U -

UMASK - set file creation mask
UNAME - get name and information about current kernel
UNIMPLEMENTED - afs_syscall, break, ftime, gtty, lock, mpx, phys, prof, profil,
UNLINK - delete a name and possibly the file it refers to
USELIB - select shared library
USTAT - get file system statistics
UTIME - change access and/or modification times of an inode

- V -

VFORK - create a child process and block parent
VHANGUP - virtually hangup the current tty
VM86 - enter virtual 8086 mode

- W -

WAIT - wait for process termination
WAIT4 - wait for process termination, BSD style
WRITE - write to a file descriptor

- Z -

_EXIT - terminate the current process

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