Manual Section 3 - Plan 9 from User Space intro(3) intro – introduction to library functions 9p(3) Srv dirread9p emalloc9p erealloc9p estrdup9p postfd postmountsrv readbuf readstr respond srv threadpostmountsrv walkandclone – 9P file service 9p-cmdbuf(3) Cmdbuf, parsecmd, respondcmderror, lookupcmd – control message parsing 9p-fid(3) Fid, Fidpool, allocfidpool, freefidpool, allocfid, closefid, lookupfid, removefid Req, Reqpool, allocreqpool, freereqpool, allocreq, closereq, lookupreq, removereq – 9P fid, request tracking 9p-file(3) Tree, alloctree, freetree File, createfile, closefile, removefile, walkfile opendirfile, readdirfile, closedirfile, hasperm – in-memory file hierarchy 9p-intmap(3) Intmap, allocmap, freemap, insertkey, caninsertkey, lookupkey deletekey – integer to data structure maps 9pclient(3) CFid, CFsys, fsinit, fsmount, fsroot, fssetroot, fsunmount, nsinit, nsmount, fsversion, fsauth, fsattach, fsclose, fscreate, fsfcreate, fsremove, fsfremove, fsaccess, fsdirread, fsdirreadall, fsdirstat, fsdirfstat, fsdirwstat, fsdirfwstat, fsopen, fsfopen, nsopen, fsopenfd, fspread, fspwrite, fsread, fsreadn, fsseek, fswrite, fsprint, fsvprint – 9P client library acme(3) Event, Win eventfmt newwin pipetowin pipewinto sysrun winaddr winclosefiles winctl windel windeleteall windows wineventchan winfd winfree winmread winname winopenfd winprint winread winreadaddr winreadevent winseek winwrite winwriteevent – acme client library addpt(3) addpt, subpt, mulpt, divpt, rectaddpt, rectsubpt, insetrect, canonrect, eqpt, eqrect, ptinrect, rectinrect, rectXrect, rectclip, combinerect, Dx, Dy, Pt, Rect, Rpt – arithmetic on points and rectangles aes(3) setupAESstate, aesCBCencrypt, aesCBCdecrypt - advanced encryption standard (rijndael) allocimage(3) allocimage, allocimagemix, freeimage, nameimage, namedimage, setalpha, loadimage, cloadimage, unloadimage, readimage, writeimage, bytesperline, wordsperline – allocating, freeing, reading, writing images arg(3) ARGBEGIN, ARGEND, ARGC, ARGF, EARGF, arginit, argopt – process option letters from argv arith3(3) add3, sub3, neg3, div3, mul3, eqpt3, closept3, dot3, cross3, len3, dist3, unit3, midpt3, lerp3, reflect3, nearseg3, pldist3, vdiv3, vrem3, pn2f3, ppp2f3, fff2p3, pdiv4, add4, sub4 – operations on 3-d points and planes atof(3) atof, atoi, atol, atoll, charstod, strtod, strtol, strtoll, strtoul, strtoull – convert text to numbers auth(3) auth_proxy, fauth_proxy, auth_allocrpc, auth_freerpc, auth_rpc, auth_getkey, amount_getkey, auth_freeAI, auth_chuid, auth_challenge, auth_response, auth_freechal, auth_respond, auth_userpasswd, auth_getuserpasswd, auth_getinfo, fsauth_proxy, fsfauth_proxy, fsamount, nsamount– routines for authenticating users authsrv(3) authdial, passtokey, nvcsum, readnvram, convT2M, convM2T, convTR2M, convM2TR, convA2M, convM2A, convPR2M, convM2PR, _asgetticket, _asrdresp – routines for communicating with authentication servers avl(3) mkavltree, insertavl, lookupavl, deleteavl, avlwalk, avlnext, avlprev, endwalk - AVL tree routines bin(3) binalloc, bingrow, binfree – grouped memory allocation bio(3) Bopen, Bfdopen, Binit, Binits, Brdline, Brdstr, Bgetc, Bgetrune, Bgetd, Bungetc, Bungetrune, Bread, Bseek, Boffset, Bfildes, Blinelen, Bputc, Bputrune, Bprint, Bvprint, Bwrite, Bflush, Bterm, Bbuffered – buffered input/output blowfish(3) setupBFstate, bfCBCencrypt, bfCBCdecrypt, bfECBencrypt, bfECBdecrypt - blowfish encryption cachechars(3) cachechars, agefont, loadchar, Subfont, Fontchar, Font – font utilities cleanname(3) cleanname – clean a path name color(3) cmap2rgb, cmap2rgba, rgb2cmap – colors and color maps complete(3) complete, freecompletion – file name completion cputime(3) cputime, times – cpu time in this process and children ctime(3) ctime, localtime, gmtime, asctime, tm2sec, timezone – convert date and time des(3) setupDESstate, des_key_setup, block_cipher, desCBCencrypt, desCBCdecrypt, desECBencrypt, desECBdecrypt, des3CBCencrypt, des3CBCdecrypt, des3ECBencrypt, des3ECBdecrypt, key_setup, des56to64, des64to56, setupDES3state, triple_block_cipher, - single and triple digital encryption standard dial(3) dial, announce, listen, accept, reject, netmkaddr, getnetconninfo, freenetconninfo, dialparse – make and break network connections dirread(3) dirread, dirreadall – read directory draw(3) Image, draw, drawop, gendraw, gendrawop, drawreplxy, drawrepl replclipr, line, lineop, poly, polyop, fillpoly, fillpolyop, bezier, bezierop bezspline, bezsplineop, bezsplinepts, fillbezier, fillbezierop fillbezspline, fillbezsplineop, ellipse, ellipseop fillellipse, fillellipseop, arc, arcop, fillarc, fillarcop icossin, icossin2, border, borderop, string, stringop, stringn, stringnop runestring, runestringop, runestringn, runestringnop, stringbg stringbgop, stringnbg, stringnbgop, runestringbg, runestringbgop runestringnbg, runestringnbgop, _string, ARROW, drawsetdebug – graphics functions drawfcall(3) convM2W, convW2M, drawfcallfmt, readwsysmsg, sizeW2M – window system protocol dsa(3) asn1toDSApriv, dsagen, dsasign, dsaverify, dsapuballoc, dsapubfree, dsaprivalloc, dsaprivfree, dsasigalloc, dsasigfree, dsaprivtopub - digital signature algorithm dup(3) dup – duplicate an open file descriptor elgamal(3) eggen, egencrypt, egdecrypt, egsign, egverify, egpuballoc, egpubfree, egprivalloc, egprivfree, egsigalloc, egsigfree, egprivtopub - elgamal encryption encode(3) dec64, enc64, dec32, enc32, dec16, enc16, encodefmt – encoding byte arrays as strings encrypt(3) encrypt, decrypt, netcrypt – DES encryption errstr(3) errstr, rerrstr, werrstr – description of last system call error event(3) event, einit, estart, estartfn, etimer, eread, emouse, ekbd, ecanread, ecanmouse, ecankbd, ereadmouse, eatomouse, eresized, egetrect, edrawgetrect, emenuhit, emoveto, esetcursor, Event, Mouse, Menu – graphics events exec(3) exec, execl – execute a file exits(3) exits, _exits, exitcode, atexit, atexitdont – terminate process, process cleanup fcall(3) Fcall, convS2M, convD2M, convM2S, convM2D, fcallfmt, dirfmt, dirmodefmt, read9pmsg, statcheck, sizeS2M, sizeD2M – interface to Plan 9 File protocol flate(3) deflateinit, deflate, deflatezlib, deflateblock, deflatezlibblock, inflateinit, inflate, inflatezlib, inflateblock, inflatezlibblock, flateerr, mkcrctab, blockcrc, adler32 – deflate compression fmtinstall(3) fmtinstall, dofmt, dorfmt, fmtprint, fmtvprint, fmtrune, fmtstrcpy, fmtrunestrcpy, fmtfdinit, fmtfdflush, fmtstrinit, fmtstrflush, runefmtstrinit, runefmtstrflush, errfmt – support for user-defined print formats and output routines frame(3) frinit, frsetrects, frinittick, frclear, frcharofpt, frptofchar, frinsert, frdelete, frselect, frtick, frselectpaint, frdrawsel, frdrawsel0, frgetmouse – frames of text genrandom(3) genrandom, prng – random number generation get9root(3) get9root, unsharp – get path to root of Plan 9 tree getcallerpc(3) getcallerpc – fetch return PC of current function getenv(3) getenv, putenv – access environment variables getfields(3) getfields, gettokens, tokenize – break a string into fields getns(3) getns – get path to name space directory getsnarf(3) getsnarf, putsnarf – window system snarf (cut and paste) buffer getuser(3) getuser, sysname – get user or system name getwd(3) getwd – get current directory graphics(3) Display, Point, Rectangle, Cursor, initdraw, geninitdraw, drawerror, initdisplay, closedisplay, getdefont, getwindow, gengetwindow, flushimage, bufimage, lockdisplay, unlockdisplay, cursorswitch, cursorset, openfont, buildfont, freefont, Pfmt, Rfmt, strtochan, chantostr, chantodepth – interactive graphics html(3) parsehtml printitems validitems freeitems freedocinfo dimenkind dimenspec targetid targetname fromStr toStr – HTML parser ioproc(3) closeioproc iocall ioclose iointerrupt iodial ioopen ioproc ioread ioread9pmsg ioreadn iorecvfd iosendfd iosleep iowrite – slave I/O processes for threaded programs ip(3) eipfmt, parseip, parseipmask, v4parseip, v4parsecidr, parseether, myipaddr, myetheraddr, maskip, equivip, defmask, isv4, v4tov6, v6tov4, nhgetl, nhgets, nhgetv, hnputl, hnputs, hnputv, ptclbsum, readipifc – Internet protocol isalpharune(3) isalpharune, islowerrune, isspacerune, istitlerune, isupperrune, tolowerrune, totitlerune, toupperrune – Unicode character classes and cases keyboard(3) initkeyboard, ctlkeyboard, closekeyboard – keyboard control lock(3) lock, canlock, unlock qlock, canqlock, qunlock rlock, canrlock, runlock wlock, canwlock, wunlock rsleep, rwakeup, rwakeupall incref, decref – spin locks, queueing rendezvous locks, reader-writer locks, rendezvous points, and reference counts mach(3) machbytype, machbyname – machine-independent access to executables and programs mach-cmd(3) attachargs, attachcore, attachdynamic, attachproc, proctextfile – debugging processes and core files mach-file(3) crackhdr, uncrackhdr, mapfile, unmapfile, mapproc, unmapproc, detachproc, ctlproc procnotes – machine-independent access to exectuable files and running processes mach-map(3) allocmap, addseg, findseg, addrtoseg addrtosegafter, removeseg, freemap get1, get2, get4, get8 put1, put2, put4, put8 rget, rput, fpformat locnone, locaddr, locconst, locreg, locindir loccmp, loceval, locfmt, locsimplify lget1, lget2, lget4, lget8 lput1, lput2, lput4, lput8 – machine-independent mach-stack(3) stacktrace, localaddr, unwindframe, windindex, windreglocs – stack traces mach-swap(3) beswap2, beswap4, beswap8, beieeeftoa32, beieeeftoa64, beieeeftoa80 beload2, beload4, beload8 leswap2, leswap4, leswap8, leieeeftoa32, leieeeftoa64, leieeeftoa80 leload2, leload4, leload8, ieeeftoa32, ieeeftoa64 – machine-independent access to byte-ordered data mach-symbol(3) symopen, symclose, findhdr, indexsym, lookupsym, findsym findexsym, flookupsym, ffindsym lookuplsym, indexlsym, findlsym symoff, pc2file, file2pc, line2pc, fnbound, fileline pc2line – symbol table access functions malloc(3) malloc, mallocz, free, realloc, calloc, setmalloctag, setrealloctag, getmalloctag, getrealloctag – memory allocator matrix(3) ident, matmul, matmulr, determinant, adjoint, invertmat, xformpoint, xformpointd, xformplane, pushmat, popmat, rot, qrot, scale, move, xform, ixform, persp, look, viewport – Geometric transformations memdraw(3) Memimage Memdata Memdrawparam memimageinit wordaddr byteaddr memimagemove allocmemimage allocmemimaged readmemimage creadmemimage writememimage freememimage memsetchan loadmemimage cloadmemimage unloadmemimage memfillcolor memarc mempoly memellipse memfillpoly memimageline memimagedraw drawclip memlinebbox memlineendsize allocmemsubfont openmemsubfont freememsubfont memsubfontwidth getmemdefont memimagestring iprint hwdraw – drawing routines for memory-resident images memlayer(3) memdraw, memlalloc, memldelete, memlexpose, memlfree, memlhide, memline, memlnorefresh, memload, memunload, memlorigin, memlsetrefresh, memltofront, memltofrontn, memltorear, memltorearn – windows of memory-resident images memory(3) memccpy, memchr, memcmp, memcpy, memmove, memset – memory operations mouse(3) initmouse, readmouse, closemouse, moveto, cursorswitch, getrect, drawgetrect, menuhit, setcursor – mouse control mousescrollsize(3) mousescrollsize – compute mouse scroll increment mp(3) mpsetminbits, mpnew, mpfree, mpbits, mpnorm, mpcopy, mpassign, mprand, strtomp, mpfmt,mptoa, betomp, mptobe, letomp, mptole, mptoui, uitomp, mptoi, itomp, uvtomp, mptouv, vtomp, mptov, mpdigdiv, mpadd, mpsub, mpleft, mpright, mpmul, mpexp, mpmod, mpdiv, mpfactorial, mpcmp, mpextendedgcd, mpinvert, mpsignif, mplowbits0, mpvecdigmuladd, mpvecdigmulsub, mpvecadd, mpvecsub, mpveccmp, mpvecmul, mpmagcmp, mpmagadd, mpmagsub, crtpre, crtin, crtout, crtprefree, crtresfree – extended precision arithmetic muldiv(3) muldiv, umuldiv – high-precision multiplication and division mux(3) Mux, muxinit, muxrpc, muxthreads – protocol multiplexor nan(3) NaN, Inf, isNaN, isInf – not-a-number and infinity functions ndb(3) ndbopen, ndbcat, ndbchanged, ndbclose, ndbreopen, ndbsearch, ndbsnext, ndbgetvalue, ndbfree, ipattr, ndbgetipaddr, ndbipinfo, ndbhash, ndbparse, ndbfindattr, ndbdiscard, ndbconcatenate, ndbreorder, ndbsubstitute, ndbgetval, ndblookval – network database needstack(3) needstack – check for execution stack overflow notify(3) notify, noted, atnotify, noteenable, notedisable, notifyon, notifyoff – handle asynchronous process notification open(3) open, create, close – open a file for reading or writing, create file opentemp(3) opentemp – create and open a uniquely-named file pipe(3) pipe – create an interprocess channel plumb(3) eplumb, plumbfree, plumbopen, plumbunmount, plumbopenfid, plumbsend, plumbsendtofid, plumbsendtext, plumblookup, plumbpack, plumbpackattr, plumbaddattr, plumbdelattr, plumbrecv, plumbrecvfid, plumbunpack, plumbunpackpartial, plumbunpackattr, Plumbmsg – plumb messages post9pservice(3) post9pservice – post 9P service for use by clients postnote(3) postnote – send a note to a process or process group prime(3) genprime, gensafeprime, genstrongprime, DSAprimes, probably_prime, smallprimetest – prime number generation print(3) print, fprint, sprint, snprint, seprint, smprint, runesprint, runesnprint, runeseprint, runesmprint, vfprint, vsnprint, vseprint, vsmprint, runevsnprint, runevseprint, runevsmprint – print formatted output proto(3) rdproto – parse and process a proto file listing pushtls(3) pushtls, tlsClient, tlsServer, initThumbprints, freeThumbprints, okThumbprint, readcert, readcertchain – attach TLS1 or SSL3 encryption to a communication channel qball(3) qball – 3-d rotation controller quaternion(3) qtom, mtoq, qadd, qsub, qneg, qmul, qdiv, qunit, qinv, qlen, slerp, qmid, qsqrt – Quaternion arithmetic quote(3) quotestrdup, quoterunestrdup, unquotestrdup, unquoterunestrdup, quotestrfmt, quoterunestrfmt, quotefmtinstall, doquote, needsrcquote – quoted character strings rand(3) rand, lrand, frand, nrand, lnrand, srand, truerand, ntruerand, fastrand, nfastrand – random number generator rc4(3) setupRC4state, rc4, rc4skip, rc4back - alleged rc4 encryption read(3) read, readn, write, pread, pwrite – read or write file readcolmap(3) RGB, readcolmap, writecolmap – access display color map readcons(3) readcons – prompt console for input regexp(3) regcomp, regcomplit, regcompnl, regexec, regsub, rregexec, rregsub, regerror – regular expression rfork(3) rfork – manipulate process state rsa(3) asn1dump asn1toRSApriv decodepem decodepemchain rsadecrypt rsaencrypt rsafill, rsagen rsaprivalloc rsaprivfree rsaprivtopub rsapuballoc rsapubfree X509toRSApub X509dump X509gen X509req X509verify – RSA encryption algorithm rune(3) runetochar, chartorune, runelen, runenlen, fullrune, utfecpy, utflen, utfnlen, utfrune, utfrrune, utfutf – rune/UTF conversion runestrcat(3) runestrcat runestrncat runestrcmp runestrncmp runestrcpy runestrncpy runestrecpy runestrlen runestrchr runestrrchr runestrdup runestrstr – rune string operations searchpath(3) search – search for named executable sechash(3) md4, md5, sha1, hmac_md5, hmac_sha1, md5pickle, md5unpickle, sha1pickle, sha1unpickle – cryptographically secure hashes seek(3) seek – change file offset sendfd(3) sendfd, recvfd – pass file descriptors along Unix domain sockets setjmp(3) setjmp, longjmp, notejmp – non-local goto sleep(3) sleep, alarm – delay, ask for delayed note stat(3) stat, fstat, wstat, fwstat, dirstat, dirfstat, dirwstat, dirfwstat, nulldir – get and put file status strcat(3) strcat, strncat, strcmp, strncmp, cistrcmp, cistrncmp, strcpy, strncpy, strecpy, strlen, strchr, strrchr, strpbrk, strspn, strcspn, strtok, strdup, strstr, cistrstr – string operations string(3) s_alloc, s_append, s_array, s_copy, s_error, s_free, s_incref, s_memappend, s_nappend, s_new, s_newalloc, s_parse, s_reset, s_restart, s_terminate, s_tolower, s_putc, s_unique, s_grow, s_read, s_read_line, s_getline, s_allocinstack, s_freeinstack, s_rdinstack – extensible strings stringsize(3) stringsize, stringwidth, stringnwidth, runestringsize, runestringwidth, runestringnwidth – graphical size of strings subfont(3) allocsubfont, freesubfont, installsubfont, lookupsubfont, uninstallsubfont, subfontname, readsubfont, readsubfonti, writesubfont, stringsubfont, strsubfontwidth, mkfont – subfont manipulation sysfatal(3) syslog, sysfatal – system error messages thread(3) alt chancreate chanfree chanprint chansetname mainstacksize proccreate procdata recv recvp recvul send sendp sendul nbrecv nbrecvp nbrecvul nbsend nbsendp nbsendul threadcreate threaddata threadexec threadexecl threadexits threadexitsall threadgetgrp threadgetname threadint threadintgrp threadkill threadkillgrp threadmain threadnotify threadid threadpid threadpin threadunpin threadsetgrp threadsetname threadsetstate threadspawn threadspawnd threadspawnl threadwaitchan yield – thread and proc management time(3) time, nsec – time in seconds and nanoseconds since epoch udpread(3) udpread, udpwrite – read and write UDP packets venti(3) venti – archival storage server venti-cache(3) VtBlock, VtCache vtblockcopy vtblockduplock vtblockput vtblockwrite vtcachealloc vtcacheallocblock vtcachefree vtcacheglobal vtcachelocal vtcachesetwrite vtglobaltolocal vtlocaltoglobal – Venti block cache venti-client(3) vtconnect, vthello, vtread, vtwrite, vtreadpacket, vtwritepacket, vtsync, vtping, vtrpc, ventidoublechecksha1 – Venti client venti-conn(3) VtConn, vtconn, vtdial, vtfreeconn, vtsend, vtrecv, vtversion vtdebug, vthangup – Venti network connections venti-fcall(3) VtEntry, VtFcall, VtRoot vtentrypack vtentryunpack vtfcallclear vtfcallfmt vtfcallpack vtfcallunpack vtfromdisktype vttodisktype vtgetstring vtputstring vtrootpack vtrootunpack vtparsescore vtscorefmt – venti data formats venti-file(3) VtFile vtfileblock vtfileblockscore vtfileclose vtfilecreate vtfilecreateroot vtfileflush vtfileflushbefore vtfilegetdirsize vtfilegetentry vtfilegetsize vtfileincref vtfilelock vtfilelock2 vtfileopen vtfileopenroot vtfileread vtfileremove vtfilesetdirsize vtfilesetentry vtfilesetsize vtfiletruncate vtfileunlock vtfilewrite – Venti files venti-log(3) VtLog VtLogChunk vtlog vtlogclose vtlogdump vtlognames vtlogopen vtlogprint vtlogremove vtlogopen ventilogging – Venti logs venti-mem(3) vtbrk vtmalloc vtmallocz vtrealloc vtstrdup vtfree – error-checking memory allocators venti-packet(3) Packet packetalloc packetappend packetasize packetcmp packetconcat packetconsume packetcopy packetdup packetforeign packetfragments packetfree packetheader packetpeek packetprefix packetsha1 packetsize packetsplit packetstats packettrailer packettrim – zero-copy network buffers venti-server(3) vtsrvhello, vtlisten, vtgetreq, vtrespond – Venti server venti-zero(3) vtzerotruncate, vtzeroextend, vtzeroscore – Venti block truncation wait(3) await, awaitnohang, awaitfor, wait, waitnohang, waitfor, waitpid – wait for a process to exit wctl(3) drawresizewindow, drawsetlabel, drawtopwindow – window management window(3) Screen, allocscreen, publicscreen, freescreen, allocwindow, bottomwindow, bottomnwindows, topwindow, topnwindows, originwindow – window management