| Guido van Rossum | ecde781 | 1995-03-28 13:35:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | \chapter{Optional Operating System Services} |
| 2 | |
| 3 | The modules described in this chapter provide interfaces to operating |
| 4 | system features that are available on selected operating systems only. |
| 5 | The interfaces are generally modelled after the \UNIX{} or C |
| 6 | interfaces but they are available on some other systems as well |
| 7 | (e.g. Windows or NT). Here's an overview: |
| 8 | |
| 9 | \begin{description} |
| 10 | |
| 11 | \item[signal] |
| 12 | --- Set handlers for asynchronous events. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | \item[socket] |
| 15 | --- Low-level networking interface. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | \item[select] |
| 18 | --- Wait for I/O completion on multiple streams. |
| 19 | |
| 20 | \item[thread] |
| 21 | --- Create multiple threads of control within one namespace. |
| 22 | |
| Guido van Rossum | 571391b | 1997-04-03 22:41:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 23 | \item[anydbm] |
| 24 | --- Generic interface to DBM-style database modules. |
| 25 | \item[whichdbm] |
| 26 | --- Guess which DBM-style module created a given database. |
| 27 | |
| Guido van Rossum | ecde781 | 1995-03-28 13:35:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 28 | \end{description} |