Provides a collection of miscellaneous methods for marshaling strings, allocating memory, and interoperating with the operating system.

See Also: UnixMarshal Members

Thread Safety

This type is safe for multithreaded operations.

Remarks

The UnixMarshal class consists of many members to facilitate the System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal class, specifically for use with Unix.

The following table assigns each method to a category that describes its usage:

Category	Members
Data Transformation	Managed to unmanaged: UnixMarshal.StringToHeap, Unmanaged to managed: UnixMarshal.PtrToString, UnixMarshal.PtrToStringArray, UnixMarshal.PtrToStringUnix
Error Handling	UnixMarshal.GetErrorDescription, UnixMarshal.ShouldRetrySyscall, UnixMarshal.ThrowExceptionForError, UnixMarshal.ThrowExceptionForErrorIf, UnixMarshal.ThrowExceptionForLastError, UnixMarshal.ThrowExceptionForLastErrorIf
Memory Management	UnixMarshal.AllocHeap, UnixMarshal.ReAllocHeap, UnixMarshal.FreeHeap

Requirements

Namespace: Mono.Unix
Assembly: Mono.Posix (in Mono.Posix.dll)
Assembly Versions: 1.0.5000.0, 2.0.0.0