Specific (extunix.ExtUnix.Specific)

exception Not_available of string

Not_available "symbol" may be raised by functions in ExtUnix.All if the wrapped C function or constant is not available on this platform.

ExtUnix.Specific includes only functions available on the current platform and will not raise Not_available. Note that libc wrappers underlying ExtUnix.Specific functions may still raise ENOSYS (Not implemented) error even though the function is available.

type ('a, 'b) carray =
  ( 'a, 'b, Stdlib.Bigarray.c_layout ) Stdlib.Bigarray.Array1.t

type of bigarray used by BA submodules that read from files into bigarrays or write bigarrays into files. The only constraint here is Bigarray.c_layout.

Naming: "bigarray with C layout" -> "carray".

type 'a carray8 =
  ( 'a, Stdlib.Bigarray.int8_unsigned_elt, Stdlib.Bigarray.c_layout )
    Stdlib.Bigarray.Array1.t

type of bigarray used by BA submodules that work with endianness and memory. Constraints are:

Bigarray.c_layout,
bigarray contains 8-bit integers.

Naming: "bigarray with C layout and 8-bit elements" -> "carray8".

type open_flag = Unix.open_flag

val eventfd : int -> Unix.file_descr

val eventfd_read : Unix.file_descr -> int64

val eventfd_write : Unix.file_descr -> int64 -> unit

module Syslog : sig ... end

module Uname : sig ... end

val uname : unit -> Uname.t

Filesystem

val fsync : Unix.file_descr -> unit

synchronize a file's in-core state with storage device

val fdatasync : Unix.file_descr -> unit

val sync : unit -> unit

causes all buffered modifications to file metadata and data to be written to the underlying file systems

val syncfs : Unix.file_descr -> unit

like sync, but synchronizes just the file system containing file referred to by the open file descriptor fd

val dirfd : Unix.dir_handle -> Unix.file_descr

type st_flag =

`\| ST_RDONLY`	(* Mount read-only. *)
`\| ST_NOSUID`	(* Ignore suid and sgid bits. *)
`\| ST_NODEV`	(* Disallow access to device special files. *)
`\| ST_NOEXEC`	(* Disallow program execution. *)
`\| ST_SYNCHRONOUS`	(* Writes are synced at once. *)
`\| ST_MANDLOCK`	(* Allow mandatory locks on an FS. *)
`\| ST_WRITE`	(* Write on file/directory/symlink. *)
`\| ST_APPEND`	(* Append-only file. *)
`\| ST_IMMUTABLE`	(* Immutable file. *)
`\| ST_NOATIME`	(* Do not update access times. *)
`\| ST_NODIRATIME`	(* Do not update directory access times. *)
`\| ST_RELATIME`	(* Update atime relative to mtime/ctime. *)

file system flags

type statvfs = {

`f_bsize : int;`	(* file system block size *)
`f_blocks : int64;`	(* size of file system in blocks *)
`f_bfree : int64;`	(* free blocks *)
`f_bavail : int64;`	(* free blocks for unprivileged users *)
`f_files : int64;`	(* inodes *)
`f_ffree : int64;`	(* free inodes *)
`f_favail : int64;`	(* free inodes for unprivileged users *)
`f_fsid : int64;`	(* file system ID *)
`f_flag : int;`	(* mount flags (raw value) *)
`f_flags : st_flag list;`	(* mount flags (decoded) *)
`f_namemax : int;`	(* maximum filename length *)

}

val statvfs : string -> statvfs

On Windows, statvfs root is emulated. root must be the root directory of the volume to be described. A trailing backslash is required. The f_flag and f_fsid fields are retrieved from a call to GetVolumeInformation. Filesystem flags are provided raw in f_flag, and only FILE_READ_ONLY_VOLUME is mapped to ST_RDONLY in f_flags.

val fstatvfs : Unix.file_descr -> statvfs

type at_flag =

| AT_EACCESS

| AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW

| AT_REMOVEDIR

| AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW

| AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT

val openat : 
  Unix.file_descr ->
  string ->
  open_flag list ->
  Unix.file_perm ->
  Unix.file_descr

val fstatat : Unix.file_descr -> string -> at_flag list -> Unix.stats

Supported flags : AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT

val unlinkat : Unix.file_descr -> string -> at_flag list -> unit

Supported flags : AT_REMOVEDIR

val renameat : Unix.file_descr -> string -> Unix.file_descr -> string -> unit

val mkdirat : Unix.file_descr -> string -> int -> unit

val linkat : 
  Unix.file_descr ->
  string ->
  Unix.file_descr ->
  string ->
  at_flag list ->
  unit

Supported flags : AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW

val symlinkat : string -> Unix.file_descr -> string -> unit

val readlinkat : Unix.file_descr -> string -> string

val fchownat : Unix.file_descr -> string -> int -> int -> at_flag list -> unit

val fchmodat : Unix.file_descr -> string -> int -> at_flag list -> unit

val int_of_file_descr : Unix.file_descr -> int

raises Not_available
if OS does not represent file descriptors as numbers

val file_descr_of_int : int -> Unix.file_descr

raises Not_available
if OS does not represent file descriptors as numbers

val is_open_descr : Unix.file_descr -> bool

returns
whether file descriptor is open

val realpath : string -> string

posix_fadvise

author Sylvain Le Gall

type advice =

`\| POSIX_FADV_NORMAL`	(* Indicates that the application has no advice to give about its access pattern for the specified data. *)
`\| POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL`	(* The application expects to access the specified data sequentially. *)
`\| POSIX_FADV_RANDOM`	(* The specified data will be accessed in random order. *)
`\| POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE`	(* The specified data will be accessed only once. *)
`\| POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED`	(* The specified data will be accessed in the near future. *)
`\| POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED`	(* The specified data will not be accessed in the near future. *)

access pattern

val fadvise : Unix.file_descr -> int -> int -> advice -> unit

predeclare an access pattern for file data

posix_fallocate

Allocate disk space for file

author Sylvain Le Gall

val fallocate : Unix.file_descr -> int -> int -> unit

fallocate fd off len allocates disk space to ensure that subsequent writes between off and off + len in fd will not fail because of lack of disk space. The file size is modified if off + len is bigger than the current size.

pread

author Goswin von Brederlow

val unsafe_all_pread : 
  Unix.file_descr ->
  int ->
  Stdlib.Bytes.t ->
  int ->
  int ->
  int

all_pread fd off buf ofs len reads up to len bytes from file descriptor fd at offset off (from the start of the file) into the string buf at offset ofs. The file offset is not changed.

all_pread repeats the read operation until all characters have been read or an error occurs. Returns less than the number of characters requested on EAGAIN, EWOULDBLOCK or End-of-file but only ever returns 0 on End-of-file. Continues the read operation on EINTR. Raises an Unix.Unix_error exception in all other cases.

val all_pread : Unix.file_descr -> int -> Stdlib.Bytes.t -> int -> int -> int

val unsafe_single_pread : 
  Unix.file_descr ->
  int ->
  Stdlib.Bytes.t ->
  int ->
  int ->
  int

single_pread fd off buf ifs len reads up to len bytes from file descriptor fd at offset off (from the start of the file) into the string buf at offset ofs. The file offset is not changed.

single_pread attempts to read only once. Returns the number of characters read or raises an Unix.Unix_error exception.

val single_pread : 
  Unix.file_descr ->
  int ->
  Stdlib.Bytes.t ->
  int ->
  int ->
  int

val unsafe_pread : 
  Unix.file_descr ->
  int ->
  Stdlib.Bytes.t ->
  int ->
  int ->
  int

pread fd off buf ofs len reads up to len bytes from file descriptor fd at offset off (from the start of the file) into the string buf at offset ofs. The file offset is not changed.

pread repeats the read operation until all characters have been read or an error occurs. Raises an Unix.Unix_error exception if 0 characters could be read before an error occurs. Continues the read operation on EINTR. Returns the number of characters written in all other cases.

val pread : Unix.file_descr -> int -> Stdlib.Bytes.t -> int -> int -> int

val unsafe_intr_pread : 
  Unix.file_descr ->
  int ->
  Stdlib.Bytes.t ->
  int ->
  int ->
  int

intr_pread fd off buf ofs len reads up to len bytes from file descriptor fd at offset off (from the start of the file) into the string buf at offset ofs. The file offset is not changed.

intr_pread repeats the read operation until all characters have been read or an error occurs. Raises an Unix.Unix_error exception if 0 characters could be read before an error occurs. Does NOT continue on EINTR. Returns the number of characters written in all other cases.

val intr_pread : Unix.file_descr -> int -> Stdlib.Bytes.t -> int -> int -> int

pwrite

author Goswin von Brederlow

val unsafe_all_pwrite : Unix.file_descr -> int -> string -> int -> int -> int

all_pwrite fd off buf ofs len writes up to len bytes from file descriptor fd at offset off (from the start of the file) into the string buf at offset ofs. The file offset is not changed.

all_pwrite repeats the write operation until all characters have been written or an error occurs. Returns less than the number of characters requested on EAGAIN, EWOULDBLOCK but never 0. Continues the write operation on EINTR. Raises an Unix.Unix_error exception in all other cases.

val all_pwrite : Unix.file_descr -> int -> string -> int -> int -> int

val unsafe_single_pwrite : 
  Unix.file_descr ->
  int ->
  string ->
  int ->
  int ->
  int

single_pwrite fd off buf ofs len writes up to len bytes from file descriptor fd at offset off (from the start of the file) into the string buf at offset ofs. The file offset is not changed.

single_pwrite attempts to write only once. Returns the number of characters written or raises an Unix.Unix_error exception.

val single_pwrite : Unix.file_descr -> int -> string -> int -> int -> int

val unsafe_pwrite : Unix.file_descr -> int -> string -> int -> int -> int

pwrite fd off buf ofs len writes up to len bytes from file descriptor fd at offset off (from the start of the file) into the string buf at offset ofs. The file offset is not changed.

pwrite repeats the write operation until all characters have been written or an error occurs. Raises an Unix.Unix_error exception if 0 characters could be written before an error occurs. Continues the write operation on EINTR. Returns the number of characters written in all other cases.

val pwrite : Unix.file_descr -> int -> string -> int -> int -> int

val unsafe_intr_pwrite : Unix.file_descr -> int -> string -> int -> int -> int

intr_pwrite fd off buf ofs len writes up to len bytes from file descriptor fd at offset off (from the start of the file) into the string buf at offset ofs. The file offset is not changed.

intr_pwrite repeats the write operation until all characters have been written or an error occurs. Raises an Unix.Unix_error exception if 0 characters could be written before an error occurs. Does NOT continue on EINTR. Returns the number of characters written in all other cases.

val intr_pwrite : Unix.file_descr -> int -> string -> int -> int -> int

read

author Goswin von Brederlow

val unsafe_all_read : Unix.file_descr -> Stdlib.Bytes.t -> int -> int -> int

all_read fd buf ofs len reads up to len bytes from file descriptor fd into the string buf at offset ofs.

all_read repeats the read operation until all characters have been read or an error occurs. Returns less than the number of characters requested on EAGAIN, EWOULDBLOCK or End-of-file but only ever returns 0 on End-of-file. Continues the read operation on EINTR. Raises an Unix.Unix_error exception in all other cases.

val all_read : Unix.file_descr -> Stdlib.Bytes.t -> int -> int -> int

val unsafe_single_read : Unix.file_descr -> Stdlib.Bytes.t -> int -> int -> int

single_read fd buf ifs len reads up to len bytes from file descriptor fd into the string buf at offset ofs.

single_read attempts to read only once. Returns the number of characters read or raises an Unix.Unix_error exception.

val single_read : Unix.file_descr -> Stdlib.Bytes.t -> int -> int -> int

val unsafe_read : Unix.file_descr -> Stdlib.Bytes.t -> int -> int -> int

read fd buf ofs len reads up to len bytes from file descriptor fd into the string buf at offset ofs.

read repeats the read operation until all characters have been read or an error occurs. Raises an Unix.Unix_error exception if 0 characters could be read before an error occurs. Continues the read operation on EINTR. Returns the number of characters written in all other cases.

val read : Unix.file_descr -> Stdlib.Bytes.t -> int -> int -> int

val unsafe_intr_read : Unix.file_descr -> Stdlib.Bytes.t -> int -> int -> int

intr_read fd buf ofs len reads up to len bytes from file descriptor fd into the string buf at offset ofs.

intr_read repeats the read operation until all characters have been read or an error occurs. Raises an Unix.Unix_error exception if 0 characters could be read before an error occurs. Does NOT continue on EINTR. Returns the number of characters written in all other cases.

val intr_read : Unix.file_descr -> Stdlib.Bytes.t -> int -> int -> int

write

author Goswin von Brederlow

val unsafe_all_write : Unix.file_descr -> string -> int -> int -> int

all_write fd buf ofs len writes up to len bytes from file descriptor fd into the string buf at offset ofs.

all_write repeats the write operation until all characters have been written or an error occurs. Returns less than the number of characters requested on EAGAIN, EWOULDBLOCK but never 0. Continues the write operation on EINTR. Raises an Unix.Unix_error exception in all other cases.

val all_write : Unix.file_descr -> string -> int -> int -> int

val unsafe_single_write : Unix.file_descr -> string -> int -> int -> int

single_write fd buf ofs len writes up to len bytes from file descriptor fd into the string buf at offset ofs.

single_write attempts to write only once. Returns the number of characters written or raises an Unix.Unix_error exception.

val single_write : Unix.file_descr -> string -> int -> int -> int

val unsafe_write : Unix.file_descr -> string -> int -> int -> int

write fd buf ofs len writes up to len bytes from file descriptor fd into the string buf at offset ofs.

write repeats the write operation until all characters have been written or an error occurs. Raises an Unix.Unix_error exception if 0 characters could be written before an error occurs. Continues the write operation on EINTR. Returns the number of characters written in all other cases.

val write : Unix.file_descr -> string -> int -> int -> int

val unsafe_intr_write : Unix.file_descr -> string -> int -> int -> int

intr_write fd buf ofs len writes up to len bytes from file descriptor fd into the string buf at offset ofs.

intr_write repeats the write operation until all characters have been written or an error occurs. Raises an Unix.Unix_error exception if 0 characters could be written before an error occurs. Does NOT continue on EINTR. Returns the number of characters written in all other cases.

val intr_write : Unix.file_descr -> string -> int -> int -> int

File operations on large files

module LargeFile : sig ... end

File operations on large files. This sub-module provides 64-bit variants of the functions ExtUnix.fadvise (for predeclaring an access pattern for file data), ExtUnix.fallocate (for allocating disk space for a file), ExtUnix.all_pread, ExtUnix.single_pread, ExtUnix.pread, ExtUnix.intr_pread, ExtUnix.all_pwrite, ExtUnix.single_pwrite, ExtUnix.pwrite and ExtUnix.intr_pwrite (for reading from or writing to a file descriptor at a given offset). These alternate functions represent positions and sizes by 64-bit integers (type int64) instead of regular integers (type int), thus allowing operating on files whose sizes are greater than max_int.

mount system call

type mount_flag =

| MS_RDONLY

| MS_NOSUID

| MS_NODEV

| MS_NOEXEC

| MS_SYNCHRONOUS

| MS_REMOUNT

| MS_MANDLOCK

| MS_DIRSYNC

| MS_NOATIME

| MS_NODIRATIME

| MS_BIND

| MS_MOVE

| MS_REC

| MS_SILENT

| MS_POSIXACL

| MS_UNBINDABLE

| MS_PRIVATE

| MS_SLAVE

| MS_SHARED

| MS_RELATIME

| MS_KERNMOUNT

| MS_I_VERSION

| MS_STRICTATIME

| MS_NOUSER

val mount : 
  source:string ->
  target:string ->
  fstype:string ->
  mount_flag list ->
  data:string ->
  unit

type umount2_flag =

| MNT_FORCE

| MNT_DETACH

| MNT_EXPIRE

| UMOUNT_NOFOLLOW

val umount2 : string -> umount2_flag list -> unit

chroot system call

val chroot : string -> unit

namespace

type clone_flag =

| CLONE_FS

| CLONE_FILES

| CLONE_NEWNS

| CLONE_SYSVSEM

| CLONE_NEWUTS

| CLONE_NEWIPC

| CLONE_NEWUSER

| CLONE_NEWPID

| CLONE_NEWNET

val unshare : clone_flag list -> unit

ioctl

module Ioctl : sig ... end

Control the underlying device parameters of special files

Miscellaneous

val ttyname : Unix.file_descr -> string

returns
name of terminal

val ctermid : unit -> string

Get controlling terminal name

val gettid : unit -> int

returns
thread id

val setpgid : int -> int -> unit

setpgid pid pgid sets the process group of the process specified by pid to pgid. If pid is zero, then the process ID of the calling process is used. If pgid is zero, then the PGID of the process specified by pid is made the same as its process ID.

val getpgid : int -> int

getpgid pid returns the PGID of the process specified by pid. If pid is zero, the process ID of the calling process is used.

val getsid : int -> int

getsid pid returns the session ID of the process specified by pid. If pid is zero, the process ID of the calling process is used.

val setreuid : int -> int -> unit

setreuid ruid euid sets real and effective user IDs of the calling process. Supplying a value of -1 for either the real or effective user ID forces the system to leave that ID unchanged.

val setregid : int -> int -> unit

setregid rgid egid sets real and effective group IDs of the calling process. Supplying a value of -1 for either the real or effective group ID forces the system to leave that ID unchanged.

val setresuid : int -> int -> int -> unit

setresuid ruid euid suid sets real, effective and saved user IDs of the calling process. Supplying a value of -1 for either the real or effective user ID forces the system to leave that ID unchanged.

val setresgid : int -> int -> int -> unit

setresgid rgid egid sgid sets real, effective and saved group IDs of the calling process. Supplying a value of -1 for either the real or effective group ID forces the system to leave that ID unchanged.

val tcgetpgrp : Unix.file_descr -> int

val tcsetpgrp : Unix.file_descr -> int -> unit

val sys_exit : int -> 'a

Exit process without running any at_exit hooks (implemented in Pervasives)

type sysinfo = {

`uptime : int;`	(* Seconds since boot *)
`loads : float * float * float;`	(* 1, 5, and 15 minute load averages *)
`totalram : int;`	(* Total usable main memory size *)
`freeram : int;`	(* Available memory size *)
`sharedram : int;`	(* Amount of shared memory *)
`bufferram : int;`	(* Memory used by buffers *)
`totalswap : int;`	(* Total swap space size *)
`freeswap : int;`	(* swap space still available *)
`procs : int;`	(* Number of current processes *)
`totalhigh : int;`	(* Total high memory size *)
`freehigh : int;`	(* Available high memory size *)
`mem_unit : int;`	(* Memory unit size in bytes *)

}

NB all memory fields in this structure are the multiplies of mem_unit bytes

val sysinfo : unit -> sysinfo

returns
overall system statistics

val uptime : unit -> int

returns
seconds since boot

Network

val getifaddrs : unit -> (string * string) list

returns
the list of AF_INET and AF_INET6 interfaces and corresponding addresses (may change)

type socket_int_option =

`\| TCP_KEEPCNT`	(* The maximum number of keepalive probes TCP should send before dropping the connection *)
`\| TCP_KEEPIDLE`	(* The time (in seconds) the connection needs to remain idle before TCP starts sending keepalive probes, if the socket option `SO_KEEPALIVE` has been set on this socket. On Apple systems, `TCP_KEEPIDLE` is an alias to `TCP_KEEPALIVE`. *)
`\| TCP_KEEPINTVL`	(* The time (in seconds) between individual keepalive probes *)
`\| SO_ATTACH_BPF`	(* file descriptor returned by the bpf(2), with program of type `BPF_PROG_TYPE_SOCKET_FILTER` *)
`\| SO_ATTACH_REUSEPORT_EBPF`	(* same as for SO_ATTACH_BPF *)

Extra socket options with integer value not covered in Unix module. NB: Not all options available on all platforms, use have_sockopt_int to check at runtime (even when function is defined in Specific module).

type socket_bool_option =

`\| SO_REUSEPORT`	(* Permits multiple AF_INET or AF_INET6 sockets to be bound to an identical socket address. *)
`\| SO_LOCK_FILTER`	(* Prevent changing the filters associated with the socket *)

type socket_unit_option =

`\| SO_DETACH_FILTER`	(* Remove classic or extended BPF program attached to a socket *)
`\| SO_DETACH_BPF`	(* same *)

val have_sockopt_unit : socket_unit_option -> bool

val have_sockopt_bool : socket_bool_option -> bool

val have_sockopt_int : socket_int_option -> bool

val have_sockopt : socket_int_option -> bool

Obsolete, compatibility, use have_sockopt_int.

deprecated

val setsockopt_unit : Unix.file_descr -> socket_unit_option -> unit

Set the option without value on the given socket

val setsockopt : Unix.file_descr -> socket_bool_option -> bool -> unit

Set a boolean-valued option in the given socket

val getsockopt : Unix.file_descr -> socket_bool_option -> bool

Get the current value for the boolean-valued option in the given socket

val setsockopt_int : Unix.file_descr -> socket_int_option -> int -> unit

Set an integer-valued option in the given socket

val getsockopt_int : Unix.file_descr -> socket_int_option -> int

Get the current value for the integer-valued option in the given socket

module Poll : sig ... end

val poll : 
  (Unix.file_descr * Poll.t) array ->
  ?n:int ->
  float ->
  (Unix.file_descr * Poll.t) list

signalfd

OCaml bindings for signalfd(2) and related functions

author Kaustuv Chaudhuri <kaustuv.chaudhuri@inria.fr>

val signalfd : 
  ?fd:Unix.file_descr ->
  sigs:int list ->
  flags:int list ->
  unit ->
  Unix.file_descr

signalfd ?fd sigs flags () If the first optional argument is omitted, then a new file descriptor is allocated. Otherwise, the given file descriptor is modified (in which case it must have been created with signalfd previously). When you are done with the fd, remember to Unix.close it. Do not forget to block sigs with Unix.sigprocmask to prevent signal handling according to default dispositions.

type ssi

This type represents signal information that is read(2) from the signalfd.

val signalfd_read : Unix.file_descr -> ssi

Blocking read(2) on a signalfd. Has undefined behaviour on non-signalfds. Every successful read consumes a pending signal.

Functions to query the signal information structure.

val ssi_signo_sys : ssi -> int

Get the signal value. This form is compatible with the signal values defined in the standard Sys module.

See signalfd(2) for the details of the remaining functions. Most of these integers are actually unsigned.

val ssi_signo : ssi -> int32

val ssi_errno : ssi -> int32

val ssi_code : ssi -> int32

val ssi_pid : ssi -> int32

val ssi_uid : ssi -> int32

val ssi_fd : ssi -> Unix.file_descr

val ssi_tid : ssi -> int32

val ssi_band : ssi -> int32

val ssi_overrun : ssi -> int32

val ssi_trapno : ssi -> int32

val ssi_status : ssi -> int32

val ssi_int : ssi -> int32

val ssi_ptr : ssi -> int64

val ssi_utime : ssi -> int64

val ssi_stime : ssi -> int64

val ssi_addr : ssi -> int64

POSIX resource operations

author Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain@le-gall.net>

type which_prio_t =

`\| PRIO_PROCESS of int`	(* Priority for a process id *)
`\| PRIO_PGRP of int`	(* Priority for a process group id *)
`\| PRIO_USER of int`	(* Priority for a user id *)

priority target

type priority = int

type resource =

`\| RLIMIT_CORE`	(* Limit on size of core dump file. *)
`\| RLIMIT_CPU`	(* Limit on CPU time per process. *)
`\| RLIMIT_DATA`	(* Limit on data segment size. *)
`\| RLIMIT_FSIZE`	(* Limit on file size. *)
`\| RLIMIT_NOFILE`	(* Limit on number of open files. *)
`\| RLIMIT_STACK`	(* Limit on stack size. *)
`\| RLIMIT_AS`	(* Limit on address space size. *)

val string_of_resource : resource -> string

get resource name

module Rlimit : sig ... end

Limits

val getpriority : which_prio_t -> priority

Get nice value

val setpriority : which_prio_t -> priority -> unit

Set nice value

val getrlimit : resource -> Rlimit.t * Rlimit.t

Get maximum resource consumption.

returns
(soft,hard) limits

val setrlimit : resource -> soft:Rlimit.t -> hard:Rlimit.t -> unit

Set maximum resource consumption

getrusage is not implemented because the only meaningful information it provides are ru_utime and ru_stime which can be accessed through Unix.times.

Memory management

type mlockall_flag =

| MCL_CURRENT

| MCL_FUTURE

mlockall flag

val mlockall : mlockall_flag list -> unit

Lock all pages mapped into the address space of the calling process.

val munlockall : unit -> unit

Unlock all pages mapped into the address space of the calling process.

val memalign : int -> int -> Stdlib.Bigarray.int8_unsigned_elt carray8

memalign alignment size creates a Bigarray.Array1.t of size bytes, which data is aligned to alignment (must be a power of 2)

author Goswin von Brederlow

Time conversion

val strptime : string -> string -> Unix.tm

This function is the converse of the strftime function. strptime fmt data convert a string containing time information data into a tm struct according to the format specified by fmt.

val asctime : Unix.tm -> string

Return the ascii representation of a given tm argument. The ascii time is returned in the form of a string like 'Wed Jun 30, 21:21:21 2005\n'

val strftime : string -> Unix.tm -> string

This functions is the converse of the strptime function. strftime fmt data converts a tm structure data into a string according to the format specified by fmt.

val tzname : bool -> string

tzname isdst

parameter isdst
specifies whether daylight saving is in effect

returns
abbreviated name of the current timezone

val timezone : unit -> int * bool

returns
timezone (seconds West of UTC) and daylight (whether there is time during the year when daylight saving time applies in this timezone)

val timegm : Unix.tm -> float

Inverse of Unix.gmtime

Pseudo terminal management

author Niki Yoshiuchi <aplusbi@gmail.com>

val posix_openpt : open_flag list -> Unix.file_descr

This function opens a pseudo-terminal device.

val grantpt : Unix.file_descr -> unit

This function grants access to the slave pseudo-terminal.

val unlockpt : Unix.file_descr -> unit

This function unlock a pseudo-terminal master/slave pair.

val ptsname : Unix.file_descr -> string

This function get the name of the slave pseudo-terminal.

Application self-debugging and diagnostics

val backtrace : unit -> string array

returns
a backtrace for the calling program
NB native function backtrace may fail to unwind the OCaml callstack correctly or even segfault. Do not use lightly.
See bug #1290, PR#5344 and Debian bug #637380 for details.

val malloc_stats : unit -> unit

Print brief heap summary statistics on stderr

val malloc_info : unit -> string

returns
the information about state of allocator

val mtrace : unit -> unit

val muntrace : unit -> unit

val ptrace_traceme : unit -> unit

val ptrace_peekdata : int -> nativeint -> nativeint

val ptrace_peektext : int -> nativeint -> nativeint

type ptrace_request =

| PTRACE_ATTACH

| PTRACE_DETACH

val ptrace : int -> ptrace_request -> unit

Environment manipulation

val setenv : string -> string -> bool -> unit

setenv name value overwrite adds the variable name to the environment with the value value, if name does not already exist or overwrite is true

val unsetenv : string -> unit

unsetenv name removes variable name from the environment. If name does not exist in the environment, then the function succeeds, and the environment is unchanged.

val clearenv : unit -> unit

Clear the environment of all name-value pairs

Temporary directories

val mkdtemp : string -> string

mkdtemp template creates a unique temporary directory (with permissions 0700). Last six characters of template must be "XXXXXX".

val mkstemp : ?suffix:string -> string -> Unix.file_descr * string

mkstemp ?(suffix="") prefix generates a unique temporary filename in the form prefixXXXXXXsuffix, creates and opens the file, and returns an open file descriptor and name for the file.

val mkostemp : 
  ?suffix:string ->
  ?flags:open_flag list ->
  string ->
  Unix.file_descr * string

mkostemp ?(suffix="") ?(flags=[]) prefix generates a unique temporary filename in the form prefixXXXXXXsuffix, creates and opens the file with flags, and returns an open file descriptor and name for the file.

Byte order conversion

module BigEndian : sig ... end

module LittleEndian : sig ... end

module HostEndian : sig ... end

read_credentials

author Andre Nathan

val read_credentials : Unix.file_descr -> int * int * int

Reads sender credentials from a file descriptor, returning a 3-element tuple containing the sender process' PID, UID and GID.

fexecve

author Andre Nathan

val fexecve : Unix.file_descr -> string array -> string array -> 'a

fexecve fd args env executes the program in file represented by file descriptor fd with arguments args and environment variables given by env. As with the execv* functions, on success fexecve never returns; the current process is replaced by the new one.

sendmsg / recvmsg

author Andre Nathan

val sendmsg : Unix.file_descr -> ?sendfd:Unix.file_descr -> string -> unit

Send a message and optionally a file descriptor through a socket. Passing file descriptors requires UNIX domain sockets and a non-empty message.

val recvmsg_fd : Unix.file_descr -> Unix.file_descr option * string

Recieve a message and possibly a file descriptor from a socket.

val sendfd : sock:Unix.file_descr -> fd:Unix.file_descr -> unit

sendfd sock fd sends a file descriptor fd through a UNIX domain socket sock. This will send a sentinel message at the same time, otherwise sendmsg will not pass the file descriptor.

val recvfd : Unix.file_descr -> Unix.file_descr

Receive a file descriptor sent through a UNIX domain socket, ignoring the message.

exception Recvfd of Unix.file_descr * string

Receive a message sent through a UNIX domain socket. Raises Recvfd(fd, msg) if a file descriptor is recieved.

val recvmsg : Unix.file_descr -> string

val recvmsg_nofd : Unix.file_descr -> string

Receive a message sent through a UNIX domain socket. Closes and ignores file descriptors.

sysconf

author Roman Vorobets

type sysconf_name =

`\| ARG_MAX`	(* The maximum length of the arguments to the exec(3) family of functions. *)
`\| CHILD_MAX`	(* The max number of simultaneous processes per user ID. *)
`\| HOST_NAME_MAX`	(* Max length of a hostname, not including the terminating null byte, as returned by gethostname(2). *)
`\| LOGIN_NAME_MAX`	(* Maximum length of a login name, including the terminating null byte. *)
`\| CLK_TCK`	(* The number of clock ticks per second. *)
`\| OPEN_MAX`	(* The maximum number of files that a process can have open at any time. *)
`\| PAGESIZE`	(* Size of a page in bytes. *)
`\| RE_DUP_MAX`	(* The number of repeated occurrences of a BRE permitted by regexec(3) and regcomp(3). *)
`\| STREAM_MAX`	(* The maximum number of streams that a process can have open at any time. *)
`\| SYMLOOP_MAX`	(* The maximum number of symbolic links seen in a pathname before resolution returns ELOOP. *)
`\| TTY_NAME_MAX`	(* The maximum length of terminal device name, including the terminating null byte. *)
`\| TZNAME_MAX`	(* The maximum number of bytes in a timezone name. *)
`\| POSIX_VERSION`	(* Indicates the year and month the POSIX.1 standard was approved in the format YYYYMML; the value 199009L indicates the Sept. 1990 revision. *)
`\| LINE_MAX`	(* The maximum length of a utility's input line, either from standard input or from a file. This includes space for a trailing newline. *)
`\| POSIX2_VERSION`	(* Indicates the version of the POSIX.2 standard in the format of YYYYMML. *)
`\| PHYS_PAGES`	(* The number of pages of physical memory. Note that it is possible for the product of this value and the value of `PAGE_SIZE` to overflow. Non-standard, may be not available *)
`\| AVPHYS_PAGES`	(* The number of currently available pages of physical memory. Non-standard, may be not available *)
`\| NPROCESSORS_CONF`	(* The number of processors configured. Non-standard, may be not available *)
`\| NPROCESSORS_ONLN`	(* The number of processors currently online (available). Non-standard, may be not available *)

name of the variable

val sysconf : sysconf_name -> int64

get configuration information at runtime, may raise Not_available for non-standard options (see above) even in Specific module

splice

author Pierre Chambart <pierre.chambart@ocamlpro.com>

type splice_flag =

`\| SPLICE_F_MOVE`	(* Attempt to move pages instead of copying. Only a hint to the kernel *)
`\| SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK`	(* Do not block on I/O *)
`\| SPLICE_F_MORE`	(* Announce that more data will be coming. Hint used by sockets *)
`\| SPLICE_F_GIFT`	(* The user pages are a gift to the kernel. The application may not modify this memory ever, or page cache and on-disk data may differ. Gifting pages to the kernel means that a subsequent splice(2) SPLICE_F_MOVE can successfully move the pages; if this flag is not specified, then a subsequent splice(2) SPLICE_F_MOVE must copy the pages. Data must also be properly page aligned, both in memory and length. Only use for `vmsplice`. *)

splice functions flags

val splice : 
  Unix.file_descr ->
  int option ->
  Unix.file_descr ->
  int option ->
  int ->
  splice_flag list ->
  int

splice fd_in off_in fd_out off_out len flags moves data between two file descriptors without copying between kernel address space and user address space. It transfers up to len bytes of data from the file descriptor fd_in to the file descriptor fd_out, where one of the descriptors must refer to a pipe.

If fd_in refers to a pipe, then off_in must be None. If fd_in does not refer to a pipe and off_in is None, then bytes are read from fd_in starting from the current file offset, and the current file offset is adjusted appropriately. If fd_in does not refer to a pipe and off_in is Some n, then n mspecifies the starting offset from which bytes will be read from fd_in; in this case, the current file offset of fd_in is not changed. Analogous statements apply for fd_out and off_out.

returns
the number of bytes spliced to or from the pipe. A return value of 0 means that there was no data to transfer, and it would not make sense to block, because there are no writers connected to the write end of the pipe referred to by fd_in.

val tee : Unix.file_descr -> Unix.file_descr -> int -> splice_flag list -> int

tee fd_in fd_out len flags duplicates up to len bytes of data from the pipe fd_in to the pipe fd_out. It does not consume the data that is duplicated from fd_in; therefore, that data can be copied by a subsequent splice.

returns
the number of bytes that were duplicated between the input and output. A return value of 0 means that there was no data to transfer, and it would not make sense to block, because there are no writers connected to the write end of the pipe referred to by fd_in.

Bigarray variants

module BA : sig ... end

Module `ExtUnix.Specific`