savonet / ocaml-posix

Bindings to the various POSIX APIs

ocaml-posix

Ocaml-posix provides various bindings to POSIX APIS.

Each package consists of a low-level APIs to be used with ocaml-ctypes and high-level APIs that can be used in OCaml projects.

The purpose of this repository is to aggregate all existing POSIX bindings into a single, consistent umbrella.

Currently, it contains:

• posix-types, replacing and extending ocaml-posix-types as well as PosixTypes from ocaml-ctypes
• posix-posix-socket and posix-socket-unix, replacing and extending sys-socket
• posix-time2, replacing and extending posix-time and replacing unix-time and posix-clock
• posix-getopt, replacing posix-getopt
• posix-uname
• posix-signal

API

The API documentation can be consulted here

How to build

dune install

How to install

Via opam:

opam install .

Via dune:

dune install

TODO

• Convert posix-mqueue
• Convert posix-semaphore
• Convert unix-sys-resource
• Convert unix-sys-stat