Open System Services System Calls Reference Manual (G06.29+, H06.08+, J06.03+)

OSS System Calls Reference Manual

Audience

This manual is for system and application programmers who want to use the OSS API

provided with the NonStop operating system. The manual assumes that the reader is a

programmer and is familiar with the C programming language.

Purpose

This manual provides a complete reference to all OSS system functions and their related

ﬁles and miscellaneous topics.

Document Usage

This manual contains a portion of the online reference (man) pages. These reference

pages are divided among 12 sections, as follows:

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Sections 1 through 10 contain reference pages for OSS system functions. These

reference pages reside in the cat2 or cat3 directory and are sorted alphabetically.

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Section 11 contains reference pages for some OSS header and special ﬁles. These

reference pages reside in the cat4 and cat7 directories and are sorted alphabetically.

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Section 12 contains reference pages for some miscellaneous OSS topics. These

reference pages reside in the cat5 directory and are sorted alphabetically.

Reference Page For mat

The reference pages for functions, ﬁles, and miscellaneous topics in this manual use the

following format. If a heading has no contents for a particular reference page, it is

omitted.

NAME Function, ﬁle, or miscellaneous topic name and purpose.

LIBRARY Library containing the function. The library is identiﬁed in terms of the

run-time environment in which the compiled application must run. For

example, an H-series native Guardian process must use the speciﬁed

library when the c89 -Wtarget=TNS/E and -Wsystype =guardian ﬂags

are speciﬁed or used by default.

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