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diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/posix.sgml b/winsup/cygwin/posix.sgml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5d00f57 --- /dev/null +++ b/winsup/cygwin/posix.sgml @@ -0,0 +1,88 @@ +<sect1 id="std-posix"> +<title>Compatibility with POSIX.1</title> + +<para>The following functions are compatible with POSIX.1:</para> + +<sect2><title>Process Primitives (Section 3) </title><para> + +fork, execl, execle, execlp, execv, execve, execvp, wait, waitpid, +_exit, kill, sigemptyset, sigfillset, sigaddset, sigdelset, +sigismember, sigaction, pthread_sigmask, sigprocmask, sigpending, +sigsuspend, alarm, pause, sleep, pthread_kill, pthread_sigmask + +<sect2><title>Process Environment (Section 4) </title><para> + +getpid, getppid, getuid, geteuid, getgid, getegid, setuid, setgid, +getgroups, getlogin, getpgrp, setsid, setpgid, uname, time, times, +getenv, ctermid, ttyname, isatty, sysconf + +<sect2><title>Files and Directories (Section 5) </title><para> + +opendir, readdir, rewinddir, closedir, chdir, getcwd, open, creat, +umask, link, mkdir, unlink, rmdir, rename, stat, fstat, access, chmod, +fchmod, chown, utime, ftruncate, pathconf, fpathconf + +<sect2><title>Input and Output Primitives (Section 6) </title><para> + +pipe, dup, dup2, close, read, write, fcntl, lseek, fsync + +<sect2><title>Device- and Class-Specific Functions (Section 7) </title><para> + +cfgetispeed, cfgetospeed, cfsetispeed, cfsetospeed, tcdrain, tcflow, +tcflush, tcgetattr, tcgetpgrp, tcsendbreak, tcsetattr, tcsetpgrp + +<sect2><title>Language-Specific Services for the C Programming Language (Section 8) </title><para> + +abort, exit, fclose, fdopen, fflush, fgetc, fgets, fileno, fopen, +fprintf, fputc, fputs, fread, freopen, fscanf, fseek, ftell, fwrite, +getc, getchar, gets, perror, printf, putc, putchar, puts, remove, +rewind, scanf, setlocale, siglongjmp, sigsetjmp, tmpfile, tmpnam, +tzset + +<sect2><title>System Databases (Section 9) </title><para> + +getgrgid, getgrnam, getpwnam, getpwuid + +<sect2><title>Synchronization (Section 11) </title><para> + +sem_init, sem_destroy, sem_wait, sem_trywait, sem_post, +pthread_mutex_init, pthread_mutex_destroy, pthread_mutex_lock, +pthread_mutex_trylock, pthread_mutex_unlock + +<sect2><title>Memory Management (Section 12) </title><para> + +mmap, mprotect, msync, munmap + +<sect2><title>Thread Management (Section 16) </title><para> + +pthread_attr_init, pthread_attr_destroy, pthread_attr_setstacksize, +pthread_attr_getstacksize, pthread_create, pthread_exit, pthread_self, +pthread_equal + +<sect2><title>Thread-Specific Data Functions (Section 17) </title><para> + +pthread_key_create, pthread_setspecific, pthread_getspecific, +pthread_key_delete + +</sect2> + +<sect2><title>Implementation Details</title> + +<para><function>setuid</function> and <function>setgid</function> +always return ENOSYS.</para> + +<para><function>link</function> will copy the file if it can't +implement a true symbolic link. Currently, symbolic links work, if at +all, only under Windows NT.</para> + +<para><function>chown</function> always returns zero.</para> + +<para><function>fcntl</function> doesn't support F_GETLK - it returns +-1 and sets errno to ENOSYS.</para> + +<para><function>lseek</function> only works properly on binary +files.</para> + +</sect2> + +</sect1>
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