Standard C Library Headers

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    BSD libc

    Superset of the POSIX Standard Library

    • <sys/tree.h> – Implementation of Red-black tree and Splay tree
    • <sys/queue.h> – Implementations of Linked list, queues, tail queue, etc.
    • <fts.h> – Functions to traverse a file hierarchy
    • <db.h> – Functions to connect to the Berkeley DB
    • <err.h> – Functions to print formatted error messages
    • <vis.h> – vis() is used to display non-printable characters in a visual format

    C POSIX Library

    Superset of the C Standard Library specification for POSIX systems

    • <aio.h> - Asynchronous I/O
    • <arpa/inet.h> - Functions for manipulating numeric IP addresses (part of Berkeley sockets)
    • <assert.h> - Macros assertions
    • <complex.h> - Arithmetic with complex numbers
    • <cpio.h> - Magic numbers for the cpio archive format
    • <dirent.h> - Functions for opening and listing directories
    • <dlfcn.h> - Dynamic linking
    • <errno.h> - Retrieving Error Number
    • <fcntl.h> - File opening, locking, and other file operations
    • <fenv.h> - Floating-Point environment
    • <float.h> - Floating Types
    • <fmtmsg.h> - Message display structures
    • <fnmatch.h> - Filename matching
    • <ftw.h> - File tree traversal
    • <glob.h> - Pathname pattern-matching (globbing)
    • <grp.h> - User group information and control
    • <iconv.h> - Codeset conversion facility
    • <inttypes.h> - Fixed-size integer data-types
    • <iso646.h> - Alternative spellings
    • <langinfo.h> - Language information constants
    • <libgen.h> - Pathname manipulation
    • <limits.h> - Implementation-defined constants
    • <locale.h> - Category macros
    • <math.h> - Mathematical and trigonometric functions
    • <monetary.h> - Monetary unit string formatting
    • <mqueue.h> - Message queue
    • <ndbm.h> - NDBM database operations
    • <net/if.h> - List local network interfaces
    • <netdb.h> - Translating protocol and hostnames into numeric addresses
    • <netinet/in.h> - Internet protocol and address family definitions
    • <netinet/tcp.h> - Additional TCP control options
    • <nl_types.h> - Localization message catalog functions
    • <poll.h> - Asynchronous file descriptor multiplexing
    • <pthread.h> - API for creating and manipulating POSIX threads
    • <pwd.h> - passwd and user information access and control
    • <regex.h> - Regular expression matching
    • <sched.h> - Execution scheduling
    • <search.h> - Search tables
    • <semaphore.h> - POSIX semaphores
    • <setjmp.h> - Stack environment declarations
    • <signal.h> - Signals
    • <spawn.h> - Process spawning
    • <stdarg.h> - Handle Variable Argument List
    • <stdbool.h> - Boolean type and values
    • <stddef.h> - Standard Type Definitions
    • <stdint.h> - Integer Types
    • <stdio.h> - Standard Buffered I/O
    • <stdlib.h> - Standard Library Definitions
    • <string.h> - Several String Operations
    • <strings.h> - Case-insensitive string comparisons
    • <stropts.h> - Stream manipulation and ioctl
    • <sys/ipc.h> - Inter-process communication (IPC)
    • <sys/mman.h> - Memory management, POSIX Shared Memory, and Memory-mapped files
    • <sys/msg.h> - POSIX message queues
    • <sys/resource.h> - Resource usage, priorities, and limiting
    • <sys/select.h> - Synchronous I/O multiplexing
    • <sys/sem.h> - XSI (SysV style) semaphores
    • <sys/shm.h> - XSI (SysV style) Shared Memory
    • <sys/socket.h> - Main Berkley sockets header
    • <sys/stat.h> - File information
    • <sys/statvfs.h> - Filesystem information
    • <sys/time.h> - Time and date functions and structures
    • <sys/times.h> - File access and modification times
    • <sys/types.h> - Various data-types
    • <sys/uio.h> - Vectored I/O operations
    • <sys/un.h> - Unix domain sockets
    • <sys/utsname.h> - Operating system information and uname
    • <sys/wait.h> - Status of terminated child processes
    • <syslog.h> - System error logging
    • <tar.h> - Magic numbers for the tar archive format
    • <termios.h> - Terminal I/O interfaces
    • <tgmath.h> - Type-Generic math macros
    • <time.h> - Type-Generic time macros
    • <trace.h> - Tracing of runtime behavior
    • <ulimit.h> - Resource limiting (DEPRECATED; use <sys/resource.h>)
    • <unistd.h> - Various essential POSIX functions and constants
    • <utime.h> - Inode access and modification times
    • <utmpx.h> - User accounting database functions
    • <wchar.h> - Wide-Character handling
    • <wctype.h> - Wide-Character classification and mapping utilities
    • <wordexp.h> - Word-expansion like the shell would perform

    ISO/IEC 9899:1990 (C89, C90)

    • <assert.h>
    • <ctype.h>
    • <errno.h>
    • <float.h>
    • <limits.h>
    • <locale.h>
    • <math.h>
    • <setjmp.h>
    • <signal.h>
    • <stdarg.h>
    • <stddef.h>
    • <stdio.h>
    • <stdlib.h>
    • <string.h>
    • <time.h>

    ISO/IEC 9899:1990/Amd.1:1995

    • <iso646.h>
    • <wchar.h>
    • <wctype.h>

    ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (C99)

    • <complex.h>
    • <fenv.h>
    • <inttypes.h>
    • <stdbool.h>
    • <stdint.h>
    • <tgmath.h>

    ISO/IEC 9899:2011 (C11)

    • <stdalign.h>
    • <stdatomic.h>
    • <stdnoreturn.h>
    • <threads.h>
    • <uchar.h>

    Newlib

    • <ctype.h> - Character-type Macro Functions
    • <locale.h> - Locale code
    • <reent.h> - Re-entrancy support
    • <signal.h> - Signal handling
    • <stdarg.h> - Macros for variable argument lists (compatible with ANSI C)
    • <stdio.h> - I/O
    • <stdlib.h> - Standard utility functions
    • <string.h> - String-related functions
    • <time.h> - Time functions
    • <unctrl.h> - Get printable representation of a character
    • <varargs.h> - Macros for variable argument lists
    • <wchar.h> - Wide-character string-handling functions

    X/Open Curses (Release 7)

    • <curses.h>
    • <term.h>
    • <uncntrl.h>

    Further Reading

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