Linux/Unix System
Linux/Unix System on the APIs.io network is a curated area collecting 10 resources — specifications, tools, and documentation — for this subject.
20 providers on the network work in this area, including Linux, UNIX System Call, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Debian, Flatcar Container Linux, and 14 more — each links out to that provider’s APIs, schemas, and governance artifacts.
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About this area
A topic catalog of system-level APIs and interfaces available across Linux/Unix-like operating systems. Includes kernel system calls, POSIX standards, inter-process communication mechanisms (D-Bus, Netlink), virtual filesystems (procfs, sysfs), event-notification facilities (epoll, inotify), device management (udev, systemd), and userspace security interfaces.
Curated resources (10)
System Calls API
Low-level interface between user-space applications and the Linux kernel providing access to process management, file I/O, memory, networking, signals, and IPC primitives.
POSIX API
Portable Operating System Interface standards for Unix-like systems, defining a consistent application programming interface across platforms.
D-Bus API
Inter-process communication and remote procedure call mechanism widely used on Linux desktop and system services.
Netlink API
Socket-based interface for communication between the kernel and user space, particularly for networking and device subsystems.
procfs API
Virtual filesystem providing process and system information through a hierarchical file-based interface.
sysfs API
Virtual filesystem for kernel objects and device information presented under /sys.
inotify API
Linux kernel subsystem for monitoring filesystem events such as file creation, deletion, and modification.
epoll API
I/O event notification facility for scalable monitoring of large numbers of file descriptors.
udev API
Device manager for the Linux kernel handling device nodes and hotplug events in /dev.
systemd API
System and service manager exposing a D-Bus interface for managing services, sockets, devices, mounts, and timers.
Related providers (20)
Network providers tagged for this area.
| Provider | Description | APIs | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux is an open-source Unix-like operating system kernel originally created by Linus Torvalds. This index catalogs the userspace and kernel programming interfaces exposed by Li... | 10 | minimal |
| UNIX System Call | Core UNIX/POSIX system calls providing low-level operating system interfaces for process management, file operations, interprocess communication, and system control. | 11 | minimal |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8) is an enterprise-grade Linux distribution that provides a stable, secure, and high-performance operating system platform for modern IT enviro... | 10 | developing |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux | Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is the world's leading enterprise Linux platform, providing APIs and services for subscription management, security insights, compliance monitori... | 8 | developing |
| Debian | Debian is a free operating system distribution maintained by the Debian Project, a community of more than a thousand volunteers worldwide. Debian provides a number of developer-... | 3 | developing |
| Flatcar Container Linux | Flatcar Container Linux is a CNCF incubating minimal, immutable Linux distribution designed for running containers. It provides automatic atomic updates through the Nebraska upd... | 1 | thin |
| systemd | systemd is a suite of basic building blocks for a Linux system. It runs as PID 1 and is the system and service manager that bootstraps the rest of the userspace, supervises long... | 16 | thin |
| Shell Scripting | A collection of APIs and resources for Shell Scripting development, including utilities, documentation, and tools. | 5 | minimal |
| gVisor | gVisor is an application kernel written in Go that implements a substantial portion of the Linux system surface. It provides an additional layer of isolation between running app... | 1 | minimal |
| Red Hat | APIs and developer resources from Red Hat, a leading provider of enterprise open source solutions including Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. | 49 | strong |
| Microsoft Windows 10 | Collection of APIs and developer resources for building applications on the Windows 10 platform, including Universal Windows Platform (UWP), Win32, and Windows Runtime APIs for ... | 17 | developing |
| CubeFS | CubeFS is a CNCF graduated cloud-native distributed file system supporting POSIX, HDFS, and S3-compatible object storage protocols. It provides multi-tenancy, multi-AZ deploymen... | 2 | developing |
| Microsoft Windows Server | APIs and integration points for Microsoft Windows Server operating system including management, networking, storage, virtualization, security, and remote administration capabili... | 16 | developing |
| Ubuntu | Collection of APIs and services provided by Canonical for Ubuntu and related products. Includes the Snap Store API for package management, Launchpad API for project hosting and ... | 8 | thin |
| Microsoft Windows | A collection of APIs and developer resources for Microsoft Windows operating system. | 8 | thin |
| Canonical | Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu, the world's most popular open source operating system for cloud, servers, desktops, IoT, and Kubernetes. Canonical publishes a broad set ... | 9 | thin |
| Runc | runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers on Linux according to the OCI (Open Container Initiative) specification. It is the reference implementation of the OCI run... | 1 | thin |
| Civil Infrastructure Platform | The Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) is a Linux Foundation collaborative project that builds an industrial-grade open source base layer for civil infrastructure systems such ... | 5 | minimal |
| ELISA | ELISA (Enabling Linux in Safety Applications) is a Linux Foundation project that creates shared tools and processes to help companies build and certify Linux-based safety-critic... | 1 | minimal |
| SUSE | SUSE is a global provider of open source enterprise solutions including SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), SUSE Rancher Prime for Kubernetes management, SUSE Manager (SUMA) fo... | 2 | minimal |
Related areas
Tags: Kernel, Linux, Operating System, System, Unix, POSIX.
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