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