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UNIX System Call Listing?


There's also a useful utility called "apropos"

$ whatis aproposapropos (1)          - search the manual page names and descriptions$ apropos filename...fnmatch (3)          - match filename or pathname...


System calls are documented in section 2 of the man documentation. Depending on your version of Unix, you should be able to find these pages in the man data directory.

On Linux, this directory is /usr/share/man/man2; your version of Unix may differ. Also man man should tell you what is in the other sections.


I used to keep a printed copy of part of "The Authorized Guide to Version 3 of the Single UNIX Specification" lying around - the table shows availability of calls in a variety of different standards, which was extremely useful for supporting multiple targets.