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      - daemon()
        Run a process in the background
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        Indicator of support for daylight saving time in the locale
      - DebugBreak()
        Enter the process debugger
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        Suspend a calling thread for a given length of time
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        Control a device
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        Calculate the difference between two times
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        Control an open directory
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        Data structure for a directory entry
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        Extract the file descriptor for a DIR stream
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        Find the parent directory part of a file pathname
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        Block while waiting for an event
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        Return a dispatch context
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        Free a dispatch context
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        Allocate a dispatch structure and create the channel associated with it
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        Allocate a dispatch structure, specifying a channel ID
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        Destroy a dispatch handle, without cleaning up the dispatch framework
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        Handle events received by dispatch_block()
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        Set a timeout
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        Unblock a thread that is blocked on a dispatch handle
      - div()
        Calculate a quotient and remainder
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        Iterate over the shared objects that are loaded into a process's address space
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        Translate an address to symbolic information
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        Close a shared object
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        Get dynamic loading diagnostic information
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        Open a shared library
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        Get the address of a symbol in a shared object
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        Write output to a file associated with a file descriptor
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        Generate a pseudo-random double
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        Duplicate a file descriptor
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        Duplicate a file descriptor, specifying the new descriptor number
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        Duplicate a file descriptor from another process
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        Fetch the information registered by calling dupfd_register()
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        Register a file descriptor to be duplicated by another process
      - dupfd_unregister()
        Unregister a handle that was returned by a call to dupfd_register()
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QNX SDP8.0C Library ReferenceAPIDeveloper

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:
_DEXTRA_FIRST()	readdir()
_DEXTRA_NEXT()	readdir()
_DEXTRA_VALID()	readdir()
__DIOF()	devctl()
__DION()	devctl()
__DIOT()	devctl()
__DIOTF()	devctl()
dn_comp()	FreeBSD documentation (https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dn_comp&manpath=FreeBSD+13.5-RELEASE+and+Ports) and Networking APIs in the High-Performance Networking Stack (io-sock) User's Guide.
dn_expand()	FreeBSD documentation (https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dn_expand&manpath=FreeBSD+13.5-RELEASE+and+Ports) and Networking APIs in the High-Performance Networking Stack (io-sock) User's Guide.

This chapter describes the API components whose names begin with D.

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