Organization of the Manual

The services and capabilities of the basic system interfaces and basic network interfaces of the Solaris OS platform are described in the following chapters.

Chapter 1, Memory and CPU Management describes the interfaces that create and manage memory mappings, do high performance file I/O, and control other aspects of memory management.

Chapter 2, Remote Shared Memory API for Solaris Clusters describes the Application Programming Interface (API) framework and library functions for remote shared memory.

Chapter 3, Session Description Protocol API describes the API framework and library functions for the Solaris implementation of the Session Description Protocol (SDP).

Chapter 4, Process Scheduler describes the operation of the SunOS process scheduler, modification of the scheduler's behavior, the scheduler's interactions with process management interfaces, and performance effects.

Chapter 5, Locality Group APIs describes the interfaces used to control the behavior and structure of locality groups and resource priority for threads within those groups.

Chapter 6, Input/Output Interfaces describes basic and old-style buffered file I/O and other elements of I/O.

Chapter 7, Interprocess Communication describes older forms of non-networked interprocess communication.

Chapter 8, Socket Interfaces describes the use of sockets, which are the basic mode of networked communication.

Chapter 9, Programming With XTI and TLI describes the use of XTI and TLI to do transport-independent networked communication.

Chapter 10, Packet Filtering Hooks describes interfaces for developing network solutions at the kernel level such as security (packet filtering and firewall) solutions and network address translation (NAT) solutions.

Chapter 11, Transport Selection and Name-to-Address Mapping describes the network selection mechanisms used by applications to select a network transport and its configuration.

Chapter 12, Real-time Programming and Administration describes real-time programming facilities in the SunOS environment and their use.

Chapter 13, The Solaris ABI and ABI Tools describes the Solaris Application Binary Interface (ABI) and the tools used to verify an application's compliance with the Solaris ABI, appcert and apptrace.

Appendix A, UNIX Domain Sockets describes UNIX domain sockets.