Programmers Guide

Up to now there are only a number of manual pages available. Some system calls inthe libraries memsos and fau are still not documented. This will change sometime.

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applstart(1)	application starter interface

mnode2coor(2)	translate node id to coordinates
mcoor2node(2)	translate coordinates to node id
mapplid(2)	get application identification
mnodeid(2)	get node id
mjobid(2)	get job/task id
mgetids(2)	get pid, application id and task id
mfork(2)	MEMSOS fork(2)
msend(2)	send message
mrecv(2)	receive message
mrecv_tag(2)	receive tag message
msemcrea(2)	create semaphore
msemdest(2)	destroy semaphore
msemp(2)	p operation (get semaphore)
msemv(2)	v operation (free semaphore)
mshmcrea(2)	create shared memory segment
mshmatt(2)	attach shared memory segment
mshmdet(2)	detach shared memory segment
mshmdest(2)	destroy shared memory segment
mshmcache(2)	enable local caching of shared memory segment
mshmflush(2)	disable local caching of shared memory segment
mshminfo(2)	get information about shared memory segment
mnotify(2)	notify other task via signal
msignal(2)	register signal (SYS V)
mbsdsignal(2)	register signal (POSIX)
msigblock(2)	set signals to block
msigsetmask(2)	set signal mask

mintro(3)	small introduction
mspinlockini(3)	spinlock initialization
mspinlock(3)	spinlock lock
mspinunlock(3)	spinlock free