N

The functions, macros, and data structures in the C library are described here in alphabetical order.

A ¦ B ¦ C ¦ D ¦ E ¦ F ¦ G ¦ H ¦ I ¦ J ¦ K ¦ L ¦ M ¦ N ¦ O ¦ P ¦ Q ¦ R ¦ S ¦ T ¦ U ¦ V ¦ W ¦ X ¦ Y ¦ Z

The following are described elsewhere:

For information about: See:
_NTO_TRACE_GETEVENT_C() "Macros for use with the event header" in the entry for TraceEvent()
_NTO_TRACE_GETEVENT() "Macros for use with the event header" in the entry for TraceEvent()
_NTO_TRACE_GETCPU() "Macros for use with the event header" in the entry for TraceEvent()
_NTO_TRACE_SETEVENT_C() "Macros for use with the event header" in the entry for TraceEvent()
_NTO_TRACE_SETEVENT() "Macros for use with the event header" in the entry for TraceEvent()

The following have been deprecated:

Instead of: Use:
nanosleep_abs() clock_nanosleep()
nanosleep_rel() clock_nanosleep()

Note the following:

This chapter describes the API components whose names begin with "N".

API component Description
name_attach() Register a name in the namespace and create a channel
name_close() Close a server connection that was opened by name_open()
name_detach() Remove a name from the namespace and destroy the channel
name_open() Open a name for a server connection
nanosleep() Suspend a thread until a timeout or signal occurs
nanospin() Busy-wait without thread blocking for a period of time
nanospin_calibrate() Calibrate before calling nanospin*()
nanospin_count() Busy-wait without blocking for a number of iterations
nanospin_ns() Busy-wait without blocking for a period of time
nanospin_ns_to_count() Convert a time in nanoseconds into a number of iterations
nap() Sleep for a given number of milliseconds
napms() Sleep for a given number of milliseconds
nbaconnect() Initiate a connection on a socket (nonblocking)
nbaconnect_result() Get the status of the previous call to nbaconnect()
ncurses Control a terminal's display
ND_NODE_CMP() Compare two node descriptors
netent Structure for information from the network database
netmgr_ndtostr() Convert a node descriptor into a string
netmgr_remote_nd() Get a node descriptor that's relative to a remote node
netmgr_strtond() Convert a string into a node descriptor
nextafter(), nextafterf() Compute the next representable double-precision floating-point number
nftw(), nftw64() Walk a file tree
nice() Change the priority of a process
nrand48() Generate a pseudo-random nonnegative long integer in a thread-safe manner
nsec2timespec() Convert nanoseconds to a timespec structure
ntohl() Convert a 32-bit value from network-byte order to host-byte order
ntohs() Convert a 16-bit value from network-byte order to host-byte order