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fork
in computing, an operation whereby a process creates a copy of itself, usually through a system call implemented in the kernel
POSIX Threads
In computing, POSIX Threads, commonly known as pthreads (after its header ''''), is an execution model that exists independently from a programming language, as well as a parallel execution model. It allows a program to control multiple different flows of work that overlap in time. Each flow of work is referred to as a thread, and creation and control over these flows is achieved by making calls to the POSIX Threads API. POSIX Threads is an API defined by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) standard POSIX.1c, Threads extensions (IEEE Std 1003.1c-1995)''.
iconv
In Unix and Unix-like operating systems, iconv (an abbreviation of internationalization conversion) is a command-line program and a standardized application programming interface (API) used to convert between different character encodings. "It can convert from any of these encodings to any other, through Unicode conversion."

glob
computer operation of listing files that match a wildcard pattern

native POSIX Thread Library
implementation of the POSIX Threads specification for the Linux operating system
mmap
In computing, mmap(2) is a POSIX-compliant Unix system call that maps files or devices into memory. It is a method of memory-mapped file I/O. It implements demand paging because file contents are not immediately read from disk and initially use no physical RAM at all. The actual reads from disk are performed after a specific location is accessed, in a lazy manner. After the mapping is no longer needed, the pointers must be unmapped with munmap(2). Protection information—for example, marking mapped regions as executable—can be managed using mprotect(2), and special treatment can be enforced usi
stat
Unix system call
unistd.h
In the C and C++ programming languages, is the name of the header file that provides access to the POSIX operating system API. It is defined by the POSIX.1 standard, the base of the Single Unix Specification, and should therefore be available in any POSIX-compliant operating system and compiler. For instance, this includes Unix and Unix-like operating systems, such as GNU variants, distributions of Linux and BSD, and macOS, and compilers such as GCC and LLVM.
C POSIX library
specification of a C standard library for POSIX systems; includes additional functions to those introduced in standard C
wait
system call
sync
Unix command to commit all data in the kernel filesystem to non-volatile storage buffers
open
system calls in some operating systems
write
system call of the UNIX kernel
close
system call