[Overview][Constants][Types][Procedures and functions][Index] | Reference for unit 'BaseUnix' (#rtl)

# Reference for unit 'BaseUnix': Procedures and functions

`CreateShellArgV` |  | Create a null-terminated array of strings from a command-line string
`FpAccess` |  | Check file access
`FpAlarm` |  | Schedule an alarm signal to be delivered
`FpChdir` |  | Change current working directory.
`FpChmod` |  | Change file permission bits
`FpChown` |  | Change owner of file
`FpClose` |  | Close file descriptor
`FpClosedir` |  | Close directory file descriptor
`FpDup` |  | Duplicate a file handle
`FpDup2` |  | Duplicate one filehandle to another
`FpExecv` |  | Execute process
`FpExecve` |  | Execute process using environment
`FpExit` |  | Exit the current process
`FpFcntl` |  | File control operations.
`fpfdfillset` |  | Set all filedescriptors in the set.
`fpFD_CLR` |  | Clears a filedescriptor in a set
`fpFD_ISSET` |  | Check whether a filedescriptor is set
`fpFD_SET` |  | Set a filedescriptor in a set
`fpFD_ZERO` |  | Clear all file descriptors in set
`FpFork` |  | Create child process
`FPFStat` |  | Retrieve file information about a file descriptor.
`FpFtruncate` |  | Truncate file on certain size.
`FpGetcwd` |  | Retrieve the current working directory.
`FpGetegid` |  | Return effective group ID
`FpGetEnv` |  | Return value of environment variable.
`fpgeterrno` |  | Retrieve extended error information.
`FpGeteuid` |  | Return effective user ID
`FpGetgid` |  | Return real group ID
`FpGetgroups` |  | Get the list of supplementary groups.
`FpGetpgrp` |  | Get process group ID
`FpGetpid` |  | Return current process ID
`FpGetppid` |  | Return parent process ID
`fpGetPriority` |  | Return process priority
`FpGetRLimit` |  | Get process resource limits
`FpGetsid` |  | Get current session ID
`FpGetuid` |  | Return current user ID
`FpIOCtl` |  | General kernel IOCTL call.
`FpKill` |  | Send a signal to a process
`FpLink` |  | Create a hard link to a file
`FpLseek` |  | Set file pointer position.
`fpLstat` |  | Return information about symbolic link. Do not follow the link
`FpMkdir` |  | Create a new directory
`FpMkfifo` |  | Create FIFO (named pipe) in file system
`Fpmmap` |  | Create memory map of a file
`Fpmunmap` |  | Unmap previously mapped memory block
`FpNanoSleep` |  | Suspend process for a short time
`fpNice` |  | Set process priority
`FpOpen` |  | Open file and return file descriptor
`FpOpendir` |  | Open a directory for reading
`FpPause` |  | Wait for a signal to arrive
`FpPipe` |  | Create a set of pipe file handlers
`FpPoll` |  | Poll a file descriptor for events.
`FppRead` |  | Positional read: read from file descriptor at a certain position.
`FppWrite` |  | Positional write: write to file descriptor at a certain position.
`FpRead` |  | Read data from file descriptor
`FpReaddir` |  | Read entry from directory
`fpReadLink` |  | Read destination of symbolic link
`FpReadV` |  | Vector read: Read into multiple buffers
`FpRename` |  | Rename file
`FpRmdir` |  | Remove a directory.
`fpSelect` |  | Wait for events on file descriptors
`fpseterrno` |  | Set extended error information.
`FpSetgid` |  | Set the current group ID
`fpSetPriority` |  | Set process priority
`FpSetRLimit` |  | Set process resource limits
`FpSetsid` |  | Create a new session.
`fpsettimeofday` |  | Set kernel time
`FpSetuid` |  | Set the current user ID
`FPSigaction` |  | Install signal handler
`FpSigAddSet` |  | Set a signal in a signal set.
`FpSigDelSet` |  | Remove a signal from a signal set.
`FpsigEmptySet` |  | Clear all signals from signal set.
`FpSigFillSet` |  | Set all signals in signal set.
`FpSigIsMember` |  | Check whether a signal appears in a signal set.
`FpSignal` |  | Install signal handler (deprecated)
`FpSigPending` |  | Return set of currently pending signals
`FpSigProcMask` |  | Set list of blocked signals
`FpSigSuspend` |  | Set signal mask and suspend process till signal is received
`FpSigTimedWait` |  | Wait for signal, with timeout
`FpSleep` |  | Suspend process for several seconds
`FpStat` |  | Retrieve file information about a file descriptor.
`fpSymlink` |  | Create a symbolic link
`fpS_ISBLK` |  | Is file a block device
`fpS_ISCHR` |  | Is file a character device
`fpS_ISDIR` |  | Is file a directory
`fpS_ISFIFO` |  | Is file a FIFO
`fpS_ISLNK` |  | Is file a symbolic link
`fpS_ISREG` |  | Is file a regular file
`fpS_ISSOCK` |  | Is file a unix socket
`fptime` |  | Return the current unix time
`FpTimes` |  | Return execution times for the current process
`FpUmask` |  | Set file creation mask.
`FpUname` |  | Return system name.
`FpUnlink` |  | Unlink (i.e. remove) a file.
`FpUtime` |  | Set access and modification times of a file (touch).
`FpWait` |  | Wait for a child to exit.
`FpWaitPid` |  | Wait for a process to terminate
`FpWrite` |  | Write data to file descriptor
`FpWriteV` |  | Vector write: Write from multiple buffers to a file descriptor
`FreeShellArgV` |  | Free the result of a CreateShellArgV function
`wexitStatus` |  | Extract the exit status from the fpWaitPID result.
`wifexited` |  | Check whether the process exited normally
`wifsignaled` |  | Check whether the process was exited by a signal.
`wstopsig` |  | Return the exit code from the process.
`wtermsig` |  | Return the signal that caused a process to exit.

Documentation generated on: Feb 26 2014