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| 62 | The modules described in this chapter provide interfaces to features |
| 63 | that are unique to the <span class="Unix">Unix</span> operating system, or in some cases to |
| 64 | some or many variants of it. Here's an overview: |
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| 69 | <td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-posix.html'>posix</a></tt></b></td> |
| 70 | <td> </td> |
| 71 | <td class='synopsis'>The most common POSIX system calls (normally used |
| 72 | via module <tt class="module"><a href="module-os.html">os</a></tt>).</td></tr> |
| 73 | <tr><td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-pwd.html'>pwd</a></tt></b></td> |
| 74 | <td> </td> |
| 75 | <td class='synopsis'>The password database (<tt class="function">getpwnam()</tt> and friends).</td></tr> |
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| 77 | <td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-grp.html'>grp</a></tt></b></td> |
| 78 | <td> </td> |
| 79 | <td class='synopsis'>The group database (<tt class="function">getgrnam()</tt> and friends).</td></tr> |
| 80 | <tr><td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-crypt.html'>crypt</a></tt></b></td> |
| 81 | <td> </td> |
| 82 | <td class='synopsis'>The <tt class="cfunction">crypt()</tt> function used to check |
| 83 | <span class="Unix">Unix</span> passwords.</td></tr> |
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| 85 | <td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-dl.html'>dl</a></tt></b></td> |
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| 87 | <td class='synopsis'>Call C functions in shared objects.</td></tr> |
| 88 | <tr><td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-dbm.html'>dbm</a></tt></b></td> |
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| 90 | <td class='synopsis'>The standard ``database'' interface, based on ndbm.</td></tr> |
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| 92 | <td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-gdbm.html'>gdbm</a></tt></b></td> |
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| 94 | <td class='synopsis'>GNU's reinterpretation of dbm.</td></tr> |
| 95 | <tr><td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-termios.html'>termios</a></tt></b></td> |
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| 97 | <td class='synopsis'>POSIX style tty control.</td></tr> |
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| 99 | <td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-tty.html'>tty</a></tt></b></td> |
| 100 | <td> </td> |
| 101 | <td class='synopsis'>Utility functions that perform common terminal control |
| 102 | operations.</td></tr> |
| 103 | <tr><td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-pty.html'>pty</a></tt></b></td> |
| 104 | <td> </td> |
| 105 | <td class='synopsis'>Pseudo-Terminal Handling for SGI and Linux.</td></tr> |
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| 107 | <td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-fcntl.html'>fcntl</a></tt></b></td> |
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| 109 | <td class='synopsis'>The <tt class="function">fcntl()</tt> and <tt class="function">ioctl()</tt> system calls.</td></tr> |
| 110 | <tr><td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-pipes.html'>pipes</a></tt></b></td> |
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| 112 | <td class='synopsis'>A Python interface to <span class="Unix">Unix</span> shell pipelines.</td></tr> |
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| 114 | <td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-posixfile.html'>posixfile</a></tt></b></td> |
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| 116 | <td class='synopsis'>A file-like object with support for locking.</td></tr> |
| 117 | <tr><td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-resource.html'>resource</a></tt></b></td> |
| 118 | <td> </td> |
| 119 | <td class='synopsis'>An interface to provide resource usage information on |
| 120 | the current process.</td></tr> |
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| 122 | <td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-nis.html'>nis</a></tt></b></td> |
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| 124 | <td class='synopsis'>Interface to Sun's NIS (Yellow Pages) library.</td></tr> |
| 125 | <tr><td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-syslog.html'>syslog</a></tt></b></td> |
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| 127 | <td class='synopsis'>An interface to the <span class="Unix">Unix</span> syslog library routines.</td></tr> |
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| 129 | <td><b><tt class='module'><a href='module-commands.html'>commands</a></tt></b></td> |
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| 131 | <td class='synopsis'>Utility functions for running external commands.</td></tr> |
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