Section 2 · System calls
System calls: P
Interfaces provided by the Linux kernel.
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- pause.2 wait for signal
- perf_event_open.2 set up performance monitoring
- perfmonctl.2 interface to IA-64 performance monitoring unit
- personality.2 set the process execution domain
- phys.2 unimplemented system calls
- pidfd_getfd.2 obtain a duplicate of another process’s file descriptor
- pidfd_open.2 obtain a file descriptor that refers to a process
- pidfd_send_signal.2 send a signal to a process specified by a file descriptor
- pipe.2 create pipe
- pipe2.2 create pipe
- pivot_root.2 change the root mount
- pkey_alloc.2 allocate or free a protection key
- pkey_free.2 allocate or free a protection key
- pkey_mprotect.2 set protection on a region of memory
- poll.2 wait for some event on a file descriptor
- posix_fadvise.2 predeclare an access pattern for file data
- ppoll.2 wait for some event on a file descriptor
- prctl.2 operations on a process or thread
- pread.2 read from or write to a file descriptor at a given offset
- pread64.2 read from or write to a file descriptor at a given offset
- preadv.2 read or write data into multiple buffers
- preadv2.2 read or write data into multiple buffers
- prlimit.2 get/set resource limits
- prlimit64.2 get/set resource limits
- process_madvise.2 give advice about use of memory to a process
- process_vm_readv.2 transfer data between process address spaces
- process_vm_writev.2 transfer data between process address spaces
- prof.2 unimplemented system calls
- pselect.2 synchronous I/O multiplexing
- pselect6.2 synchronous I/O multiplexing
- ptrace.2 process trace
- putmsg.2 unimplemented system calls
- putpmsg.2 unimplemented system calls
- pwrite.2 read from or write to a file descriptor at a given offset
- pwrite64.2 read from or write to a file descriptor at a given offset
- pwritev.2 read or write data into multiple buffers
- pwritev2.2 read or write data into multiple buffers