The C POSIX library is a specification of a C standard library for POSIX systems. It was developed at the same time as the ANSI C standard. Some effort...

File and Directory Operations Pipes C Library (Standard C) I/O Port Interface and Control Process Triggers POSIX.1b: Real-time extensions (IEEE Std 1003...

The Native POSIX Thread Library (NPTL) is an implementation of the POSIX Threads specification for the Linux operating system. Before the 2.6 version...

In computing, POSIX Threads, commonly known as pthreads, is an execution model that exists independently from a programming language, as well as a parallel...

original ANSI C standard, it was developed at the same time as the C library POSIX specification, which is a superset of it. Since ANSI C was adopted by...

Getopt is a C library function used to parse command-line options of the Unix/POSIX style. It is a part of the POSIX specification, and is universal to...

associates a hash with a file. The open call is standardized by the POSIX specification for C language: int open(const char *path, int oflag, .../*,mode_t mode...

shell scripts. The POSIX-mandated case statement in shells provides pattern-matching using glob patterns. Some shells (such as the C shell and Bash) support...

In the C and C++ programming languages, unistd.h is the name of the header file that provides access to the POSIX operating system API. It is defined by...

addition of group permissions and larger file size. The C POSIX library header sys/stat.h, found on POSIX and other Unix-like operating systems, declares the...