The Syscall wrapper class makes it possible to execute the defined system calls. For more information on any of these system calls, the linux manual system (man) has exhaustive information on each syscall in section two: 'man 2 chdir' (or often chdir(2)) for example would give information related to chdir, including error codes, which are in general not listed here. [Edit]

See Also: Syscall Members

System.Object
     Mono.Unix.Native.Stdlib
          Mono.Unix.Native.Syscall

[System.CLSCompliant(false)] public sealed class Syscall : Stdlib

Thread Safety

Public static members of this type may be thread safe; check your operating system documentation. No instance members are guaranteed to be thread safe.All public static members of this type are probably safe for multithreaded operations within managed code. (Methods which are obviously unsafe are synchronized, such as Syscall.ttyname, but any hidden dependencies between e.g. Syscall.ttyname and Syscall.read are not protected.) No multithreading guarantee is made between managed and unmanaged code. Check your operating system documentation for more information.

Remarks

The syscall wrapper follows the posix standard. This means some functionality or flags which are linux specific may not be available. Below is a list of known posix syscall functions and features that are not yet implemented.

Syscall	Status
mount	Inherently non-portable across the various Unix flavours, and will never be supported. Instead, use stem.Diagnostics.Process and invoke the command-line mount(8) program.
umount	Inherently non-portable across the various Unix flavours, and will never be supported. Instead, use stem.Diagnostics.Process and invoke the command-line umount(8) program.
ptrace	Not yet implemented.
ftime	Not yet implemented.
times	Not yet implemented.
ulimit	Not yet implemented.
sigaction	Not yet implemented.
sigsuspend	Not yet implemented.
sigpending	Not yet implemented.
setrlimit	Not yet implemented.
getrlimit	Not yet implemented.
getrusage	Not yet implemented.

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Requirements

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