System Module

Portable operating-system layer for a process. More...

Topics
	File System Access
	File and directory operations with iterator-based traversal.
	Concurrency
	Threads, mutexes, condition variables, queues and processes.
	Event Loops
	Event loops, timers and console applications.
	I/O
	Synchronous and asynchronous I/O devices and streams.
	Logging
	Efficient multi-threaded logging with configurable output channels.
	Shared Libraries
	Loading shared libraries and resolving symbols at runtime.
	Plugins
	Creating plugin instances from shared libraries at runtime.
	Tar Archive I/O
	Reading and writing tar archives (Pax/UStar format).

Classes
class	Clock
	Stopwatch, system time and monotonic ticks. More...
class	SystemError
	Exception for a failed system operation. More...

Detailed Description

This module is the portable operating-system layer for a process. This chapter covers the file system, threads and processes, event loops, I/O devices, logging, shared libraries, plugins, tar archives, and the clock.