Guile Reference Manual: POSIX

Warning: This is the manual of the legacy Guile 2.0 series. You may want to read the manual of the current stable series instead.

• Conventions: Conventions employed by the POSIX interface.

• Ports and File Descriptors: Scheme “ports” and Unix file descriptors have different representations.

• File System: stat, chown, chmod, etc.

• User Information: Retrieving a user’s GECOS (/etc/passwd) entry.

• Time: gettimeofday, localtime, strftime, etc.

• Runtime Environment: Accessing and modifying Guile’s environment.

• Processes: getuid, getpid, etc.

• Signals: sigaction, kill, pause, alarm, setitimer, etc.

• Terminals and Ptys: ttyname, tcsetpgrp, etc.

• Pipes: Communicating data between processes.

• Networking: gethostbyaddr, getnetent, socket, bind, listen.

• System Identification: Obtaining information about the system.

• Locales: setlocale, etc.