Module Unix

The type of error codes. Errors defined in the POSIX standard and additional errors from UNIX98 and BSD. All other errors are mapped to EUNKNOWNERR.

Raised by the system calls below when an error is encountered. The first component is the error code; the second component is the function name; the third component is the string parameter to the function, if it has one, or the empty string otherwise.

Return a string describing the given error code.

handle_unix_error f x applies f to x and returns the result. If the exception Unix.Unix_error is raised, it prints a message describing the error and exits with code 2.

Return the process environment, as an array of strings with the format ``variable=value''. The returned array is empty if the process has special privileges.

Return the process environment, as an array of strings with the format ``variable=value''. Unlike Unix.environment, this function returns a populated array even if the process has special privileges. See the documentation for Unix.unsafe_getenv for more details.

Return the value associated to a variable in the process environment, unless the process has special privileges.

Return the value associated to a variable in the process environment.

Unlike Unix.getenv, this function returns the value even if the process has special privileges. It is considered unsafe because the programmer of a setuid or setgid program must be careful to avoid using maliciously crafted environment variables in the search path for executables, the locations for temporary files or logs, and the like.

Unix.putenv name value sets the value associated to a variable in the process environment. name is the name of the environment variable, and value its new associated value.

The termination status of a process. See module Sys for the definitions of the standard signal numbers. Note that they are not the numbers used by the OS.

Flags for Unix.waitpid.

execv prog args execute the program in file prog, with the arguments args, and the current process environment. These execv* functions never return: on success, the current program is replaced by the new one.

Same as Unix.execv, except that the third argument provides the environment to the program executed.

Same as Unix.execv, except that the program is searched in the path.

Same as Unix.execve, except that the program is searched in the path.

Fork a new process. The returned integer is 0 for the child process, the pid of the child process for the parent process.

On Windows: not implemented, use Unix.create_process or threads.

Wait until one of the children processes die, and return its pid and termination status.

On Windows: Not implemented, use Unix.waitpid.

Same as Unix.wait, but waits for the child process whose pid is given. A pid of -1 means wait for any child. A pid of 0 means wait for any child in the same process group as the current process. Negative pid arguments represent process groups. The list of options indicates whether waitpid should return immediately without waiting, and whether it should report stopped children.

On Windows, this function can only wait for a given PID, not any child process.

Execute the given command, wait until it terminates, and return its termination status. The string is interpreted by the shell /bin/sh (or the command interpreter cmd.exe on Windows) and therefore can contain redirections, quotes, variables, etc. To properly quote whitespace and shell special characters occuring in file names or command arguments, the use of Filename.quote_command is recommended. The result WEXITED 127 indicates that the shell couldn't be executed.

Return the pid of the process.

Return the pid of the parent process. On Windows: not implemented (because it is meaningless).

Change the process priority. The integer argument is added to the ``nice'' value. (Higher values of the ``nice'' value mean lower priorities.) Return the new nice value.

On Windows: not implemented.

The abstract type of file descriptors.

File descriptor for standard input.

File descriptor for standard output.

File descriptor for standard error.

The flags to Unix.openfile.

The type of file access rights, e.g. 0o640 is read and write for user, read for group, none for others

Open the named file with the given flags. Third argument is the permissions to give to the file if it is created (see Unix.umask). Return a file descriptor on the named file.

Close a file descriptor.

Flush file buffers to disk.

read fd buff ofs len reads len bytes from descriptor fd, storing them in byte sequence buff, starting at position ofs in buff. Return the number of bytes actually read.

write fd buff ofs len writes len bytes to descriptor fd, taking them from byte sequence buff, starting at position ofs in buff. Return the number of bytes actually written. write repeats the writing operation until all bytes have been written or an error occurs.

Same as write, but attempts to write only once. Thus, if an error occurs, single_write guarantees that no data has been written.

Same as write, but take the data from a string instead of a byte sequence.

Same as single_write, but take the data from a string instead of a byte sequence.

Create an input channel reading from the given descriptor. The channel is initially in binary mode; use set_binary_mode_in ic false if text mode is desired. Text mode is supported only if the descriptor refers to a file or pipe, but is not supported if it refers to a socket. On Windows, set_binary_mode_in always fails on channels created with this function.

Beware that channels are buffered so more characters may have been read from the file descriptor than those accessed using channel functions. Channels also keep a copy of the current position in the file.

You need to explicitly close all channels created with this function. Closing the channel also closes the underlying file descriptor (unless it was already closed).

Create an output channel writing on the given descriptor. The channel is initially in binary mode; use set_binary_mode_out oc false if text mode is desired. Text mode is supported only if the descriptor refers to a file or pipe, but is not supported if it refers to a socket. On Windows, set_binary_mode_out always fails on channels created with this function.

Beware that channels are buffered so you may have to flush them to ensure that all data has been sent to the file descriptor. Channels also keep a copy of the current position in the file.

You need to explicitly close all channels created with this function. Closing the channel flushes the data and closes the underlying file descriptor (unless it has already been closed, in which case the buffered data is lost).

Return the descriptor corresponding to an input channel.

Return the descriptor corresponding to an output channel.

Positioning modes for Unix.lseek.

Set the current position for a file descriptor, and return the resulting offset (from the beginning of the file).

Truncates the named file to the given size.

Truncates the file corresponding to the given descriptor to the given size.

The information returned by the Unix.stat calls.

Return the information for the named file.

Same as Unix.stat, but in case the file is a symbolic link, return the information for the link itself.

Return the information for the file associated with the given descriptor.

Return true if the given file descriptor refers to a terminal or console window, false otherwise.

Memory mapping of a file as a Bigarray. map_file fd kind layout shared dims returns a Bigarray of kind kind, layout layout, and dimensions as specified in dims. The data contained in this Bigarray are the contents of the file referred to by the file descriptor fd (as opened previously with Unix.openfile, for example). The optional pos parameter is the byte offset in the file of the data being mapped; it defaults to 0 (map from the beginning of the file).

If shared is true, all modifications performed on the array are reflected in the file. This requires that fd be opened with write permissions. If shared is false, modifications performed on the array are done in memory only, using copy-on-write of the modified pages; the underlying file is not affected.

Genarray.map_file is much more efficient than reading the whole file in a Bigarray, modifying that Bigarray, and writing it afterwards.

To adjust automatically the dimensions of the Bigarray to the actual size of the file, the major dimension (that is, the first dimension for an array with C layout, and the last dimension for an array with Fortran layout) can be given as -1. Genarray.map_file then determines the major dimension from the size of the file. The file must contain an integral number of sub-arrays as determined by the non-major dimensions, otherwise Failure is raised.

If all dimensions of the Bigarray are given, the file size is matched against the size of the Bigarray. If the file is larger than the Bigarray, only the initial portion of the file is mapped to the Bigarray. If the file is smaller than the big array, the file is automatically grown to the size of the Bigarray. This requires write permissions on fd.

Array accesses are bounds-checked, but the bounds are determined by the initial call to map_file. Therefore, you should make sure no other process modifies the mapped file while you're accessing it, or a SIGBUS signal may be raised. This happens, for instance, if the file is shrunk.

Invalid_argument or Failure may be raised in cases where argument validation fails.

Removes the named file.

If the named file is a directory, raises:

• EPERM on POSIX compliant system
• EISDIR on Linux >= 2.1.132
• EACCESS on Windows

rename old new changes the name of a file from old to new, moving it between directories if needed. If new already exists, its contents will be replaced with those of old. Depending on the operating system, the metadata (permissions, owner, etc) of new can either be preserved or be replaced by those of old.

link ?follow source dest creates a hard link named dest to the file named source.

Flags for the Unix.access call.

Change the permissions of the named file.

Change the permissions of an opened file. On Windows: not implemented.

Change the owner uid and owner gid of the named file. On Windows: not implemented (make no sense on a DOS file system).

Change the owner uid and owner gid of an opened file. On Windows: not implemented (make no sense on a DOS file system).

Set the process's file mode creation mask, and return the previous mask. On Windows: not implemented.

Check that the process has the given permissions over the named file.

Return a new file descriptor referencing the same file as the given descriptor. See Unix.set_close_on_exec for documentation on the cloexec optional argument.

dup2 fd1 fd2 duplicates fd1 to fd2, closing fd2 if already opened. See Unix.set_close_on_exec for documentation on the cloexec optional argument.

Set the ``non-blocking'' flag on the given descriptor. When the non-blocking flag is set, reading on a descriptor on which there is temporarily no data available raises the EAGAIN or EWOULDBLOCK error instead of blocking; writing on a descriptor on which there is temporarily no room for writing also raises EAGAIN or EWOULDBLOCK.

Clear the ``non-blocking'' flag on the given descriptor. See Unix.set_nonblock.

Set the ``close-on-exec'' flag on the given descriptor. A descriptor with the close-on-exec flag is automatically closed when the current process starts another program with one of the exec, create_process and open_process functions.

It is often a security hole to leak file descriptors opened on, say, a private file to an external program: the program, then, gets access to the private file and can do bad things with it. Hence, it is highly recommended to set all file descriptors ``close-on-exec'', except in the very few cases where a file descriptor actually needs to be transmitted to another program.

The best way to set a file descriptor ``close-on-exec'' is to create it in this state. To this end, the openfile function has O_CLOEXEC and O_KEEPEXEC flags to enforce ``close-on-exec'' mode or ``keep-on-exec'' mode, respectively. All other operations in the Unix module that create file descriptors have an optional argument ?cloexec:bool to indicate whether the file descriptor should be created in ``close-on-exec'' mode (by writing ~cloexec:true) or in ``keep-on-exec'' mode (by writing ~cloexec:false). For historical reasons, the default file descriptor creation mode is ``keep-on-exec'', if no cloexec optional argument is given. This is not a safe default, hence it is highly recommended to pass explicit cloexec arguments to operations that create file descriptors.

The cloexec optional arguments and the O_KEEPEXEC flag were introduced in OCaml 4.05. Earlier, the common practice was to create file descriptors in the default, ``keep-on-exec'' mode, then call set_close_on_exec on those freshly-created file descriptors. This is not as safe as creating the file descriptor in ``close-on-exec'' mode because, in multithreaded programs, a window of vulnerability exists between the time when the file descriptor is created and the time set_close_on_exec completes. If another thread spawns another program during this window, the descriptor will leak, as it is still in the ``keep-on-exec'' mode.

Regarding the atomicity guarantees given by ~cloexec:true or by the use of the O_CLOEXEC flag: on all platforms it is guaranteed that a concurrently-executing Caml thread cannot leak the descriptor by starting a new process. On Linux, this guarantee extends to concurrently-executing C threads. As of Feb 2017, other operating systems lack the necessary system calls and still expose a window of vulnerability during which a C thread can see the newly-created file descriptor in ``keep-on-exec'' mode.

Clear the ``close-on-exec'' flag on the given descriptor. See Unix.set_close_on_exec.

Create a directory with the given permissions (see Unix.umask).

Remove an empty directory.

Change the process working directory.

Return the name of the current working directory.

Change the process root directory. On Windows: not implemented.

The type of descriptors over opened directories.

Open a descriptor on a directory

Return the next entry in a directory.

Reposition the descriptor to the beginning of the directory

Close a directory descriptor.

Create a pipe. The first component of the result is opened for reading, that's the exit to the pipe. The second component is opened for writing, that's the entrance to the pipe. See Unix.set_close_on_exec for documentation on the cloexec optional argument.

Create a named pipe with the given permissions (see Unix.umask). On Windows: not implemented.

create_process prog args new_stdin new_stdout new_stderr forks a new process that executes the program in file prog, with arguments args. The pid of the new process is returned immediately; the new process executes concurrently with the current process. The standard input and outputs of the new process are connected to the descriptors new_stdin, new_stdout and new_stderr. Passing e.g. stdout for new_stdout prevents the redirection and causes the new process to have the same standard output as the current process. The executable file prog is searched in the path. The new process has the same environment as the current process.

create_process_env prog args env new_stdin new_stdout new_stderr works as Unix.create_process, except that the extra argument env specifies the environment passed to the program.

High-level pipe and process management. This function runs the given command in parallel with the program. The standard output of the command is redirected to a pipe, which can be read via the returned input channel. The command is interpreted by the shell /bin/sh (or cmd.exe on Windows), cf. Unix.system. The Filename.quote_command function can be used to quote the command and its arguments as appropriate for the shell being used. If the command does not need to be run through the shell, Unix.open_process_args_in can be used as a more robust and more efficient alternative to Unix.open_process_in.

Same as Unix.open_process_in, but redirect the standard input of the command to a pipe. Data written to the returned output channel is sent to the standard input of the command. Warning: writes on output channels are buffered, hence be careful to call flush at the right times to ensure correct synchronization. If the command does not need to be run through the shell, Unix.open_process_args_out can be used instead of Unix.open_process_out.

Same as Unix.open_process_out, but redirects both the standard input and standard output of the command to pipes connected to the two returned channels. The input channel is connected to the output of the command, and the output channel to the input of the command. If the command does not need to be run through the shell, Unix.open_process_args can be used instead of Unix.open_process.

Similar to Unix.open_process, but the second argument specifies the environment passed to the command. The result is a triple of channels connected respectively to the standard output, standard input, and standard error of the command. If the command does not need to be run through the shell, Unix.open_process_args_full can be used instead of Unix.open_process_full.

High-level pipe and process management. The first argument specifies the command to run, and the second argument specifies the argument array passed to the command. This function runs the command in parallel with the program. The standard output of the command is redirected to a pipe, which can be read via the returned input channel.

Same as Unix.open_process_args_in, but redirect the standard input of the command to a pipe. Data written to the returned output channel is sent to the standard input of the command. Warning: writes on output channels are buffered, hence be careful to call flush at the right times to ensure correct synchronization.

Same as Unix.open_process_args_out, but redirects both the standard input and standard output of the command to pipes connected to the two returned channels. The input channel is connected to the output of the command, and the output channel to the input of the command.

Similar to Unix.open_process_args, but the third argument specifies the environment passed to the command. The result is a triple of channels connected respectively to the standard output, standard input, and standard error of the command.

Return the pid of a process opened via Unix.open_process_in or Unix.open_process_args_in.

Return the pid of a process opened via Unix.open_process_out or Unix.open_process_args_out.

Return the pid of a process opened via Unix.open_process or Unix.open_process_args.

Return the pid of a process opened via Unix.open_process_full or Unix.open_process_args_full.

Close channels opened by Unix.open_process_in, wait for the associated command to terminate, and return its termination status.

Close channels opened by Unix.open_process_out, wait for the associated command to terminate, and return its termination status.

Close channels opened by Unix.open_process, wait for the associated command to terminate, and return its termination status.

Close channels opened by Unix.open_process_full, wait for the associated command to terminate, and return its termination status.

symlink ?to_dir source dest creates the file dest as a symbolic link to the file source. On Windows, ~to_dir indicates if the symbolic link points to a directory or a file; if omitted, symlink examines source using stat and picks appropriately, if source does not exist then false is assumed (for this reason, it is recommended that the ~to_dir parameter be specified in new code). On Unix, ~to_dir is ignored.

Windows symbolic links are available in Windows Vista onwards. There are some important differences between Windows symlinks and their POSIX counterparts.

Windows symbolic links come in two flavours: directory and regular, which designate whether the symbolic link points to a directory or a file. The type must be correct - a directory symlink which actually points to a file cannot be selected with chdir and a file symlink which actually points to a directory cannot be read or written (note that Cygwin's emulation layer ignores this distinction).

When symbolic links are created to existing targets, this distinction doesn't matter and symlink will automatically create the correct kind of symbolic link. The distinction matters when a symbolic link is created to a non-existent target.

The other caveat is that by default symbolic links are a privileged operation. Administrators will always need to be running elevated (or with UAC disabled) and by default normal user accounts need to be granted the SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege via Local Security Policy (secpol.msc) or via Active Directory.

Unix.has_symlink can be used to check that a process is able to create symbolic links.

Returns true if the user is able to create symbolic links. On Windows, this indicates that the user not only has the SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege but is also running elevated, if necessary. On other platforms, this is simply indicates that the symlink system call is available.

Read the contents of a symbolic link.

Wait until some input/output operations become possible on some channels. The three list arguments are, respectively, a set of descriptors to check for reading (first argument), for writing (second argument), or for exceptional conditions (third argument). The fourth argument is the maximal timeout, in seconds; a negative fourth argument means no timeout (unbounded wait). The result is composed of three sets of descriptors: those ready for reading (first component), ready for writing (second component), and over which an exceptional condition is pending (third component).

Commands for Unix.lockf.

lockf fd cmd size puts a lock on a region of the file opened as fd. The region starts at the current read/write position for fd (as set by Unix.lseek), and extends size bytes forward if size is positive, size bytes backwards if size is negative, or to the end of the file if size is zero. A write lock prevents any other process from acquiring a read or write lock on the region. A read lock prevents any other process from acquiring a write lock on the region, but lets other processes acquire read locks on it.

The F_LOCK and F_TLOCK commands attempts to put a write lock on the specified region. The F_RLOCK and F_TRLOCK commands attempts to put a read lock on the specified region. If one or several locks put by another process prevent the current process from acquiring the lock, F_LOCK and F_RLOCK block until these locks are removed, while F_TLOCK and F_TRLOCK fail immediately with an exception. The F_ULOCK removes whatever locks the current process has on the specified region. Finally, the F_TEST command tests whether a write lock can be acquired on the specified region, without actually putting a lock. It returns immediately if successful, or fails otherwise.

What happens when a process tries to lock a region of a file that is already locked by the same process depends on the OS. On POSIX-compliant systems, the second lock operation succeeds and may "promote" the older lock from read lock to write lock. On Windows, the second lock operation will block or fail.

kill pid sig sends signal number sig to the process with id pid. On Windows, only the Sys.sigkill signal is emulated.

sigprocmask cmd sigs changes the set of blocked signals. If cmd is SIG_SETMASK, blocked signals are set to those in the list sigs. If cmd is SIG_BLOCK, the signals in sigs are added to the set of blocked signals. If cmd is SIG_UNBLOCK, the signals in sigs are removed from the set of blocked signals. sigprocmask returns the set of previously blocked signals.

When the systhreads version of the Thread module is loaded, this function redirects to Thread.sigmask. I.e., sigprocmask only changes the mask of the current thread.

On Windows: not implemented (no inter-process signals on Windows).

Return the set of blocked signals that are currently pending.

On Windows: not implemented (no inter-process signals on Windows).

sigsuspend sigs atomically sets the blocked signals to sigs and waits for a non-ignored, non-blocked signal to be delivered. On return, the blocked signals are reset to their initial value.

On Windows: not implemented (no inter-process signals on Windows).

Wait until a non-ignored, non-blocked signal is delivered.

On Windows: not implemented (no inter-process signals on Windows).

The execution times (CPU times) of a process.

The type representing wallclock time and calendar date.

Return the current time since 00:00:00 GMT, Jan. 1, 1970, in seconds.

Same as Unix.time, but with resolution better than 1 second.

Convert a time in seconds, as returned by Unix.time, into a date and a time. Assumes UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), also known as GMT. To perform the inverse conversion, set the TZ environment variable to "UTC", use Unix.mktime, and then restore the original value of TZ.

Convert a time in seconds, as returned by Unix.time, into a date and a time. Assumes the local time zone. The function performing the inverse conversion is Unix.mktime.

Convert a date and time, specified by the tm argument, into a time in seconds, as returned by Unix.time. The tm_isdst, tm_wday and tm_yday fields of tm are ignored. Also return a normalized copy of the given tm record, with the tm_wday, tm_yday, and tm_isdst fields recomputed from the other fields, and the other fields normalized (so that, e.g., 40 October is changed into 9 November). The tm argument is interpreted in the local time zone.

Schedule a SIGALRM signal after the given number of seconds.

On Windows: not implemented.

Stop execution for the given number of seconds.

Stop execution for the given number of seconds. Like sleep, but fractions of seconds are supported.

Return the execution times of the process. On Windows, it is partially implemented, will not report timings for child processes.

Set the last access time (second arg) and last modification time (third arg) for a file. Times are expressed in seconds from 00:00:00 GMT, Jan. 1, 1970. If both times are 0.0, the access and last modification times are both set to the current time.

The three kinds of interval timers.

The type describing the status of an interval timer

Return the current status of the given interval timer.

On Windows: not implemented.

setitimer t s sets the interval timer t and returns its previous status. The s argument is interpreted as follows: s.it_value, if nonzero, is the time to the next timer expiration; s.it_interval, if nonzero, specifies a value to be used in reloading it_value when the timer expires. Setting s.it_value to zero disables the timer. Setting s.it_interval to zero causes the timer to be disabled after its next expiration.

On Windows: not implemented.

Return the user id of the user executing the process. On Windows, always return 1.

Return the effective user id under which the process runs. On Windows, always return 1.

Set the real user id and effective user id for the process. On Windows: not implemented.

Return the group id of the user executing the process. On Windows, always return 1.

Return the effective group id under which the process runs. On Windows, always return 1.

Set the real group id and effective group id for the process. On Windows: not implemented.

Return the list of groups to which the user executing the process belongs. On Windows, always return [|1|].

setgroups groups sets the supplementary group IDs for the calling process. Appropriate privileges are required. On Windows: not implemented.

initgroups user group initializes the group access list by reading the group database /etc/group and using all groups of which user is a member. The additional group group is also added to the list. On Windows: not implemented.

Structure of entries in the passwd database.

Structure of entries in the groups database.

Return the login name of the user executing the process.

Find an entry in passwd with the given name.

Find an entry in group with the given name.

Find an entry in passwd with the given user id.

Find an entry in group with the given group id.

The abstract type of Internet addresses.

Conversion from the printable representation of an Internet address to its internal representation. The argument string consists of 4 numbers separated by periods (XXX.YYY.ZZZ.TTT) for IPv4 addresses, and up to 8 numbers separated by colons for IPv6 addresses.

Return the printable representation of the given Internet address. See Unix.inet_addr_of_string for a description of the printable representation.

A special IPv4 address, for use only with bind, representing all the Internet addresses that the host machine possesses.

A special IPv4 address representing the host machine (127.0.0.1).

A special IPv6 address, for use only with bind, representing all the Internet addresses that the host machine possesses.

A special IPv6 address representing the host machine (::1).

The type of socket domains. Not all platforms support IPv6 sockets (type PF_INET6). Windows does not support PF_UNIX.

The type of socket kinds, specifying the semantics of communications. SOCK_SEQPACKET is included for completeness, but is rarely supported by the OS, and needs system calls that are not available in this library.

Create a new socket in the given domain, and with the given kind. The third argument is the protocol type; 0 selects the default protocol for that kind of sockets. See Unix.set_close_on_exec for documentation on the cloexec optional argument.

Return the socket domain adequate for the given socket address.

Create a pair of unnamed sockets, connected together. See Unix.set_close_on_exec for documentation on the cloexec optional argument.

Accept connections on the given socket. The returned descriptor is a socket connected to the client; the returned address is the address of the connecting client. See Unix.set_close_on_exec for documentation on the cloexec optional argument.

Bind a socket to an address.

Connect a socket to an address.

Set up a socket for receiving connection requests. The integer argument is the maximal number of pending requests.

The type of commands for shutdown.

Shutdown a socket connection. SHUTDOWN_SEND as second argument causes reads on the other end of the connection to return an end-of-file condition. SHUTDOWN_RECEIVE causes writes on the other end of the connection to return a closed pipe condition (SIGPIPE signal).

Return the address of the given socket.

Return the address of the host connected to the given socket.

Receive data from a connected socket.

Receive data from an unconnected socket.

Send data over a connected socket.

Same as send, but take the data from a string instead of a byte sequence.

Send data over an unconnected socket.

Same as sendto, but take the data from a string instead of a byte sequence.

The socket options that can be consulted with Unix.getsockopt and modified with Unix.setsockopt. These options have a boolean (true/false) value.

The socket options that can be consulted with Unix.getsockopt_int and modified with Unix.setsockopt_int. These options have an integer value.

The socket options that can be consulted with Unix.getsockopt_optint and modified with Unix.setsockopt_optint. These options have a value of type int option, with None meaning ``disabled''.

The socket options that can be consulted with Unix.getsockopt_float and modified with Unix.setsockopt_float. These options have a floating-point value representing a time in seconds. The value 0 means infinite timeout.

Return the current status of a boolean-valued option in the given socket.

Set or clear a boolean-valued option in the given socket.

Same as Unix.getsockopt for an integer-valued socket option.

Same as Unix.setsockopt for an integer-valued socket option.

Same as Unix.getsockopt for a socket option whose value is an int option.

Same as Unix.setsockopt for a socket option whose value is an int option.

Same as Unix.getsockopt for a socket option whose value is a floating-point number.

Same as Unix.setsockopt for a socket option whose value is a floating-point number.

Return the error condition associated with the given socket, and clear it.

Connect to a server at the given address. Return a pair of buffered channels connected to the server. Remember to call flush on the output channel at the right times to ensure correct synchronization.

``Shut down'' a connection established with Unix.open_connection; that is, transmit an end-of-file condition to the server reading on the other side of the connection. This does not fully close the file descriptor associated with the channel, which you must remember to free via close_in.

Establish a server on the given address. The function given as first argument is called for each connection with two buffered channels connected to the client. A new process is created for each connection. The function Unix.establish_server never returns normally.

On Windows, it is not implemented. Use threads.

Structure of entries in the hosts database.

Structure of entries in the protocols database.

Structure of entries in the services database.

Return the name of the local host.

Find an entry in hosts with the given name.

Find an entry in hosts with the given address.

Find an entry in protocols with the given name.

Find an entry in protocols with the given protocol number.

Find an entry in services with the given name.

Find an entry in services with the given service number.

Address information returned by Unix.getaddrinfo.

Options to Unix.getaddrinfo.

getaddrinfo host service opts returns a list of Unix.addr_info records describing socket parameters and addresses suitable for communicating with the given host and service. The empty list is returned if the host or service names are unknown, or the constraints expressed in opts cannot be satisfied.

host is either a host name or the string representation of an IP address. host can be given as the empty string; in this case, the ``any'' address or the ``loopback'' address are used, depending whether opts contains AI_PASSIVE. service is either a service name or the string representation of a port number. service can be given as the empty string; in this case, the port field of the returned addresses is set to 0. opts is a possibly empty list of options that allows the caller to force a particular socket domain (e.g. IPv6 only or IPv4 only) or a particular socket type (e.g. TCP only or UDP only).

Host and service information returned by Unix.getnameinfo.

Options to Unix.getnameinfo.

getnameinfo addr opts returns the host name and service name corresponding to the socket address addr. opts is a possibly empty list of options that governs how these names are obtained.

Return the status of the terminal referred to by the given file descriptor. On Windows, not implemented.

Set the status of the terminal referred to by the given file descriptor. The second argument indicates when the status change takes place: immediately (TCSANOW), when all pending output has been transmitted (TCSADRAIN), or after flushing all input that has been received but not read (TCSAFLUSH). TCSADRAIN is recommended when changing the output parameters; TCSAFLUSH, when changing the input parameters.

On Windows, not implemented.

Send a break condition on the given file descriptor. The second argument is the duration of the break, in 0.1s units; 0 means standard duration (0.25s).

On Windows, not implemented.

Waits until all output written on the given file descriptor has been transmitted.

On Windows, not implemented.

Discard data written on the given file descriptor but not yet transmitted, or data received but not yet read, depending on the second argument: TCIFLUSH flushes data received but not read, TCOFLUSH flushes data written but not transmitted, and TCIOFLUSH flushes both.

On Windows, not implemented.

Suspend or restart reception or transmission of data on the given file descriptor, depending on the second argument: TCOOFF suspends output, TCOON restarts output, TCIOFF transmits a STOP character to suspend input, and TCION transmits a START character to restart input.

On Windows, not implemented.

Put the calling process in a new session and detach it from its controlling terminal.

On Windows, not implemented.