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 'man 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.Obsolete("Use Mono.Unix.Native.Syscall.")] [System.CLSCompliant(false)] public class Syscall

See Also

Mono.Unix.Native.Syscall

Remarks

This type is obsolete. Please use Mono.Unix.Native.Syscall instead.

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 featuer	Status
OpenFlags.O_NOFOLLOW = 512	Non posix. Not yet implemented.
OpenFlags.O_DIRECTORY = 1024	Non posix. Not yet implemented.
OpenFlags.O_DIRECT = 2048	Non posix. Not yet implemented.
OpenFlags.O_ASYNC = 4096	Non posix. Not yet implemented.
OpenFlags.O_LARGEFILE = 8192	Non posix. Not yet implemented.
Signals.SIGPWR	Not yet implemented.
Signals.SIGRTMIN	Not yet implemented.
execve	Not yet implemented.
time	Not yet implemented.
mknod	Not yet implemented.
mount	Not yet implemented.
umount	Not yet implemented.
stime	Not yet implemented.
ptrace	Not yet implemented.
utime	Not yet implemented.
ftime	Not yet implemented.
pipe	Not yet implemented.
times	Not yet implemented.
fcntl	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.
gettimeofday	Not yet implemented.
settimeofday	Not yet implemented.

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Requirements

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