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| • Conventions | Conventions employed by the POSIX interface. | |
| • Ports and File Descriptors | Scheme “ports” and Unix file descriptors have different representations. | |
| • File System | stat, chown, chmod, etc. | |
| • User Information | Retrieving a user’s GECOS (/etc/passwd) entry. | |
| • Time | gettimeofday, localtime, strftime, etc. | |
| • Runtime Environment | Accessing and modifying Guile’s environment. | |
| • Processes | getuid, getpid, etc. | |
| • Signals | sigaction, kill, pause, alarm, setitimer, etc. | |
| • Terminals and Ptys | ttyname, tcsetpgrp, etc. | |
| • Pipes | Communicating data between processes. | |
| • Networking | gethostbyaddr, getnetent, socket, bind, listen. | |
| • System Identification | Obtaining information about the system. | |
| • Locales | setlocale, etc. | |
| • Encryption |