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.
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| • 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. | |
| • Encryption: |