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Unix Specific Services¶
8.1 posix – The most common POSIX system calls
8.1.1 Large File Support 8.1.2 Module Contents
8.2 pwd – The password database
8.3 grp – The group database
8.4 crypt – Function to check Unix passwords
8.5 dl – Call C functions in shared objects 8.5.1 Dl Objects
8.6 dbm – Simple database interface
8.7 gdbm – GNU’s reinterpretation of dbm
8.8 termios – POSIX style tty control
8.8.1 Example
8.9 TERMIOS – Constants used with the termios module
8.10 tty – Terminal control functions
8.11 pty – Pseudo-terminal utilities
8.12 fcntl – The fcntl() and ioctl() system calls
8.13 pipes – Interface to shell pipelines
8.13.1 Template Objects
8.14 posixfile – File-like objects with locking support
8.15 resource – Resource usage information
8.15.1 Resource Limits 8.15.2 Resource Usage
8.16 nis – Interface to Sun’s NIS (Yellow Pages)
8.17 syslog – Unix syslog library routines
8.18 commands – Utilities for running commands