The following is a list of Linux system calls that contain most of the common system calls and functions derived from system calls. This is probably the only list of Linux system calls you can see on the Internet, even if it's a simple alphabetical list, it's very rare to be able to do so completely.
By convention, this list is modelled on the Man Pages section 2nd, the System invocation section. According to the author's understanding, the general classification, but also made some minor changes, deleted a few for the kernel, not allow users to call the system calls, the individual I slightly feel inappropriate place made some minor changes, and all listed system calls attached a brief comment.
Some of these functions work exactly the same way, except for different parameters. (maybe a lot of familiar C + + friends can immediately associate with the function overload, but do not forget that the Linux core is written in C, so it can only be used for different function names). Some of the functions are obsolete, replaced by new better functions (GCC warns when linking these functions), but because of the reasons for compatibility, these functions will be marked with "*" on the front.
First, Process Control:
Fork |
Create a new process |
Clone |
Create child processes by specified criteria |
Execve |
Run the executable file |
Exit |
Abort process |
_exit |
Abort Current process immediately |
Getdtablesize |
Maximum number of files that the process can open |
Getpgid |
Gets the specified process group identification number |
Setpgid |
Sets the specified process group flag number |
Getpgrp |
Gets the current process group identification number |
Setpgrp |
Set the current Process group flag number |
Getpid |
Get process identification number |
Getppid |
Gets the parent process identification number |
GetPriority |
Get scheduling priority |
SetPriority |
Set scheduling priority |
Modify_ldt |
Local description table for read and write processes |
Nanosleep |
Make process sleep Specify the time |
Nice |
Change the priority of the time-sharing process |
Pause |
Suspend process, wait for signal |
Personality |
Set process Run domain |
Prctl |
To perform specific actions on a process |
Ptrace |
Process tracking |
Sched_get_priority_max |
Get the upper limit of the static priority |
Sched_get_priority_min |
Get the lower bound of the static priority |
Sched_getparam |
Get scheduling parameters for a process |
Sched_getscheduler |
Gets the scheduling policy for the specified process |
Sched_rr_get_interval |
Get the time slice length of real-time process scheduled by RR algorithm |
Sched_setparam |
Set scheduling parameters for a process |
Sched_setscheduler |
To set scheduling policies and parameters for a specified process |
Sched_yield |
The process proactively yields the processor and waits for the queue to dispatch itself |
Vfork |
Create a sub-process for executing new programs, often with EXECVE, etc. |
Wait |
Wait for the child process to terminate |
Wait3 |
See wait |
Waitpid |
Waits for the specified child process to terminate |
Wait4 |
See Waitpid |
Capget |
Get Process Permissions |
Capset |
Set process Permissions |
GetSID |
Get a meeting identification number |
Setsid |
Set up meeting identification number |
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Second, file system control 1, file read and write operation
Fcntl |
File control |
Open |
Open File |
creat |
Create a new file |
Close |
Close File Description Word |
Read |
Read the file |
Write |
Write a file |
Readv |
Reading data from a file into a buffer array |
Writev |
Writes the data in the buffer array to the file |
Pread |
Random Read of files |
Pwrite |
Random Write to File |
Lseek |
Move file pointer |
_llseek |
Move the file pointer in the 64-bit address space |
Dup |
Copy an open file description word |
Dup2 |
Copy a file description word by specified criteria |
Flock |
File Add/Unlock |
Poll |
I/o multi-channel conversion |
Truncate |
Truncate file |
Ftruncate |
See truncate |
Umask |
Set File Permission Mask |
Fsync |
Write the file back to disk in the memory section |
2. File System operation
Access |
Determining the accessibility of a file |
ChDir |
Change the current working directory |
Fchdir |
See ChDir |
chmod |
Change file Mode |
Fchmod |
See chmod |
Chown |
Change the owner or user group of a file |
Fchown |
See Chown |
Lchown |
See Chown |
Chroot |
Changing the root directory |
Stat |
Fetching File status information |
Lstat |
See Stat |
Fstat |
See Stat |
Statfs |
Fetching File System Information |
Fstatfs |
See Statfs |
Readdir |
Reading directory entries |
Getdents |
Reading directory entries |
Mkdir |
Create a Directory |
Mknod |
Create an index node |
RmDir |
Delete Directory |
Rename |
File renaming |
Link |
Create a link |
Symlink |
Creating Symbolic Links |
Unlink |
Delete link |
Readlink |
Read the value of a symbolic link |
Mount |
Installing the file system |
Umount |
Removing the file system |
Ustat |
Fetching File System Information |
Utime |
Change the file's access modification time |
Utimes |
See Utime |
Quotactl |
Controlling disk quotas |
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Third, System control
Ioctl |
I/O Total control function |
_sysctl |
Read/write system parameters |
Acct |
Enable or disable process accounting |
Getrlimit |
Get System Resource Cap |
Setrlimit |
Set System Resource Caps |
Getrusage |
Get System Resource Usage |
Uselib |
Select the binary library you want to use |
Ioperm |
Set Port I/O permissions |
Iopl |
Change the process I/O permission level |
Outb |
Low-level port operation |
Reboot |
Restart |
Swapon |
Open swap files and devices |
Swapoff |
Close swap files and devices |
Bdflush |
Controlling the Bdflush daemon |
Sysfs |
File system type supported by core |
SysInfo |
Get System Information |
Adjtimex |
Adjusting the system clock |
Alarm |
Set the alarm for a process |
Getitimer |
Get timer value |
Setitimer |
Set Timer value |
Gettimeofday |
Take time and time zone |
Settimeofday |
Set time and time zone |
Stime |
Set the system date and time |
Time |
Get system time |
Times |
Take process run time |
Uname |
Get information about the name, version, and host of the current UNIX system |
Vhangup |
Suspend current terminal |
Nfsservctl |
Controlling the NFS Daemon |
Vm86 |
Enter analog 8086 mode |
Create_module |
To create a loadable module item |
Delete_module |
To delete a loadable module item |
Init_module |
Initializing the module |
Query_module |
Querying module information |
*get_kernel_syms |
Obtained the core symbol, has been replaced by Query_module |
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Iv. Memory Management
Brk |
Change the allocation of data segment space |
Sbrk |
See BRK |
Mlock |
Memory page Lock |
Munlock |
Memory Pages Unlocked |
Mlockall |
Call Process all memory page lock |
Munlockall |
Call Process all memory page unlocked |
Mmap |
Mapping Virtual Memory Pages |
Munmap |
removing memory page mappings |
Mremap |
Remap Virtual memory addresses |
Msync |
Write data from mapped memory back to disk |
Mprotect |
Set Memory image protection |
GetPageSize |
Get page size |
Sync |
Write memory buffer data back to the hard disk |
Cacheflush |
Writes the contents of the specified buffer back to disk |
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Five, network management
Getdomainname |
Take domain |
Setdomainname |
Set the domain name |
Gethostid |
Get host identification number |
Sethostid |
Set the host identification number |
GetHostName |
Get the host name |
SetHostName |
Set host name |
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Six, Socket control
Socketcall |
Socket system Call |
Socket |
Creating sockets |
Bind |
Bind socket to Port |
Connect |
Connecting to a remote host |
Accept |
Responding to a socket connection request |
Send |
Send message via socket |
SendTo |
Send UDP message |
Sendmsg |
See Send |
Recv |
Receiving information through the socket |
Recvfrom |
Receiving UDP information |
Recvmsg |
See recv |
Listen |
Monitor socket port |
Select |
Polling for multi-channel synchronous I/O |
Shutdown |
Close the connection on the socket |
GetSockName |
Get the local socket name |
Getpeername |
Get the socket name of the communication partner |
GetSockOpt |
Fetch Port Settings |
SetSockOpt |
Setting Port Parameters |
Sendfile |
Transferring data between files or ports |
Socketpair |
Create a pair of nameless sockets that have been joined |
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VII. User Management
Getuid |
Get the User ID number |
Setuid |
Set User flag number |
Getgid |
Get group identification number |
Setgid |
Set the group flag number |
Getegid |
Get Valid group identification number |
Setegid |
Set Valid group identification number |
Geteuid |
Get a valid user identification number |
Seteuid |
Set a valid user identification number |
Setregid |
Set a real and valid group identification number, respectively |
Setreuid |
Set a real and valid user identification number separately |
Getresgid |
Get real, valid, and saved group identification numbers, respectively |
Setresgid |
Set the actual, valid, and saved group identification numbers separately |
Getresuid |
Get real, valid, and saved user identification numbers, respectively |
Setresuid |
Set up real, valid, and saved user identification numbers, respectively |
Setfsgid |
Set the group identification number to use when setting up file system checks |
Setfsuid |
Set the user identification number used when file system checks |
GetGroups |
Get list of post-complement group flags |
Setgroups |
Set up post-complement Group flag list |
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VIII. Inter-process communication
Ipc |
Inter-process communication total Control call |
1. Signal
Sigaction |
Set the processing method for the specified signal |
Sigprocmask |
Operation of blocking/unblocking of signals in signal set according to parameters |
Sigpending |
Sets the queue for the specified blocked signal |
Sigsuspend |
Suspend process waits for a specific signal |
Signal |
See Signal |
Kill |
Signaling to a process or process group |
*sigblock |
Adds a signal to the blocked signal mask that has been replaced by Sigprocmask |
*siggetmask |
Get an existing blocking signal mask that has been replaced by Sigprocmask |
*sigsetmask |
Replacing an existing blocking signal mask with a given signal mask, replaced by Sigprocmask |
*sigmask |
Converts a given signal to a mask that has been replaced by Sigprocmask |
*sigpause |
function with Sigsuspend, has been replaced by sigsuspend |
Sigvec |
For BSD-compliant signal processing functions, similar to Sigaction |
Ssetmask |
The signal processing function of ANSI C, acting like sigaction |
2. Message
Msgctl |
Message control operations |
Msgget |
Get Message Queuing |
Msgsnd |
Send Message |
Msgrcv |
Cancellation interest |
3. Pipeline
4. Signal Volume
Semctl |
Signal Volume Control |
Semget |
Get a set of semaphores |
Semop |
Semaphore operation |
5. Shared Memory
Shmctl |
Controlling shared memory |
Shmget |
Get shared memory |
Shmat |
Connecting shared memory |
Shmdt |
removing shared memory |
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