autotoc_md1

Introduction

OS-APIs is a set of functions that provides a generic way to interact with the OS. The OS interaction types include: file operations, process creation and manipulation, inter-process communication, etc. See list of all supported operations here

autotoc_md3

Mapping between OS specific API functions to OS-APIs functions

OS-APIs	*POSIX (Linux and macOS)**	WIN32
OS_GetFileAttributes()	stat() lstat()	GetFileAttributes()
OS_GetFDAttributes()	fstat()	GetFileInformationByHandle()
OS_OpenFD()	open() creat()	CreateFile() CreateFileEx() OpenFile()
OS_WriteFD()	write()	WriteFile() WriteFileEx()
OS_ReadFD()	read()	ReadFile() ReadFileEx()
OS_SeekFD()	lseek() llseek() lseek64()	SetFilePointer() SetFilePointerEx()
OS_CloseFD()	close()	CloseHandle()
OS_DeleteFile()	unlink() unlinkat()	DeleteFile()
OS_FlushFD()	fsync() fdatasync()	FlushFileBuffers()
OS_FilePermissionsFD()	fstat()	GetFileAttributes()
OS_FileSizeFD()	fstat()	GetFileSize() GetFileSizeEx()
OS_Cwd()	cwd()	GetCurrentDirectory()
OS_Chdir()	chdir()	SetCurrentDirectory()
OS_OpenDirFD()	open()	OpenFile() CreateFile()
OS_MkDir()	mkdir()	CreateDirectory() CreateDirectoryEx()
OS_DeleteDirectory()	rmdir()	RemoveDirectory()
OS_IsConsoleFD()	isatty()	GetObjectType()
OS_GetFDAccessMode()	fcntl()	NtQueryObject()
OS_ReadDirectoryFD()	getdents64() getdents()
OS_RenameFile()	rename()	MoveFile()
OS_ReadLink()	readlink()
OS_Pipe()	pipe()	CreatePipe()
OS_GetHostName()	uname()	GetComputerName() GetComputerNameEx()
OS_GetHostCPUArch()	uname()	IsWow64Process()
OS_GetOSVersion()	uname()	GetVersion() GetVersionEx()
OS_AllocateMemory()	mmap()	VirtualAlloc() VirtualAllocEx()
OS_MapFileToMemory()	mmap()	MapViewOfFile() MapViewOfFileEx()
OS_FreeMemory()	munmap()	VirtualFree() VirtualFreeEx() UnmapViewOfFile()
OS_GetPageSize()	getpagesize()	GetSystemInfo()
OS_QueryMemory()		VirtualQuery() VirtualQueryEx()
OS_ProtectMemory()	mprotect()	VirtualProtect() VirtualProtectEx()
OS_GetCommandLine()		GetCommandLine()
OS_GetEnvironmentBlock()	environ	GetEnvironmentVariable() SetEnvironmentVariable()
OS_SuspendThread()	kill() tkill() tgkill()	SuspendThread()
OS_ResumeThread()	kill() tkill() tgkill()	ResumeThread()
OS_GetTid()	gettid()	GetCurrentThreadId()
OS_GetPid()	getpid()	GetCurrentProcessId()