overview of pipes and FIFOs NAME pipe - overview of pipes and FIFOs DESCRIPTION Pipes and FIFOs (also known as named pipes) provide a unidirectional interprocess communication chan…SPU filesystem NAME spufs - SPU filesystem DESCRIPTION The SPU filesystem is used on PowerPC machines that implement the Cell Broadband Engine Architecture in order to access Syner…POSIX safety concepts NAME attributes - POSIX safety concepts DESCRIPTION Note : the text of this man page is based on the material taken from the "POSIX Safety Concepts" section o…overview of Non-Uniform Memory Architecture NAME numa - overview of Non-Uniform Memory Architecture DESCRIPTION Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) refers to multiprocessor systems wh…I/O event notification facility NAME epoll - I/O event notification facility SYNOPSIS #include <sys/epoll.h> DESCRIPTION The epoll API performs a similar task to poll (2): monitori…rebuild indexes NAME REINDEX - rebuild indexes SYNOPSIS REINDEX [ ( option [, ...] ) ] { INDEX | TABLE | SCHEMA } [ CONCURRENTLY ] name REINDEX [ ( option [, ...] ) ] { DATABASE | …Linux control groups NAME cgroups - Linux control groups DESCRIPTION Control groups, usually referred to as cgroups, are a Linux kernel feature which allow processes to be organize…Extended attributes NAME xattr - Extended attributes DESCRIPTION Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated permanently with files and directories, similar to the environm…optional parts of the POSIX standard NAME posixoptions - optional parts of the POSIX standard DESCRIPTION The POSIX standard (the information below is from POSIX.1-2001) describes …Linux socket interface NAME socket - Linux socket interface SYNOPSIS #include <sys/socket.h> sockfd = socket(int socket_family , int socket_type , int protocol ); DESCRIPTION This …roff language reference for mandoc NAME roff — roff language reference for mandoc DESCRIPTION The roff language is a general purpose text formatting language. Since traditional imp…set the characteristics of the current transaction NAME SET_TRANSACTION - set the characteristics of the current transaction SYNOPSIS SET TRANSACTION transaction_mode [, ...] SET T…lock a table NAME LOCK - lock a table SYNOPSIS LOCK [ TABLE ] [ ONLY ] name [ * ] [, ...] [ IN lockmode MODE ] [ NOWAIT ] where lockmode is one of: ACCESS SHARE | ROW SHARE | ROW E…overview of Memory Protection Keys NAME pkeys - overview of Memory Protection Keys DESCRIPTION Memory Protection Keys (pkeys) are an extension to existing page-based memory permiss…overview of Linux time namespaces NAME time_namespaces - overview of Linux time namespaces DESCRIPTION Time namespaces virtualize the values of two system clocks: • CLOCK_MONOTONIC…overview of Linux capabilities NAME capabilities - overview of Linux capabilities DESCRIPTION For the purpose of performing permission checks, traditional UNIX implementations dist…overview of Linux user namespaces NAME user_namespaces - overview of Linux user namespaces DESCRIPTION For an overview of namespaces, see namespaces (7). User namespaces isolate se…confine processes to processor and memory node subsets NAME cpuset - confine processes to processor and memory node subsets DESCRIPTION The cpuset filesystem is a pseudo-filesystem…create a new database NAME CREATE_DATABASE - create a new database SYNOPSIS CREATE DATABASE name [ WITH ] [ OWNER [=] user_name ] [ TEMPLATE [=] template ] [ ENCODING [=] encoding …cluster a table according to an index NAME CLUSTER - cluster a table according to an index SYNOPSIS CLUSTER [ ( option [, ...] ) ] [ table_name [ USING index_name ] ] where option …