February 2006
Intermediate to advanced
648 pages
14h 53m
English
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Operating System Modules
These modules provide additional operating system services. In some cases, the functionality of a module listed here is already incorporated into the functionality of other modules covered in Chapter 19, “Operating System Services.”
| Module | Description |
|---|---|
| curses | Curses library interface |
| dircache | Directory cache |
| mutex | Mutual exclusion locks |
| pty | Pseudo terminal handling |
| pipes | Interface to shell pipelines |
| posixfile | File locking |
| nis | Interface to Sun’s NIS |
| readline | Access to GNU readline library |
| rlcompleter | Completion function for GNU readline |
| sched | Event scheduler |
| statcache | Caching version of stat() function |
| syslog | Interface to UNIX syslog daemon |