# Module std::os::unix 1.0.0 [−] [src]

This is supported on Unix only.

Experimental extensions to `std` for Unix platforms.

Provides access to platform-level information on Unix platforms, and exposes Unix-specific functions that would otherwise be inappropriate as part of the core `std` library.

It exposes more ways to deal with platform-specific strings (`OsStr`, `OsString`), allows to set permissions more granularly, extract low-level file descriptors from files and sockets, and has platform-specific helpers for spawning processes.

# Examples

    use std::fs::File;
    use std::os::unix::prelude::*;

    fn main() {
        let f = File::create("foo.txt").unwrap();
        let fd = f.as_raw_fd();

        // use fd with native unix bindings
    }Run

## Modules

ffi | [ Unix ] Unix-specific extension to the primitives in the `std::ffi` module
fs | [ Unix ] Unix-specific extensions to primitives in the `std::fs` module.
io | [ Unix ] Unix-specific extensions to general I/O primitives
net | [ Unix ] Unix-specific networking functionality
prelude | [ Unix ] A prelude for conveniently writing platform-specific code.
process | [ Unix ] Unix-specific extensions to primitives in the `std::process` module.
raw | [ Deprecated ] [ Unix ] Unix-specific primitives available on all unix platforms
thread | [ Unix ] Unix-specific extensions to primitives in the `std::thread` module.

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