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      - name_attach()
        Register a name in the pathname space 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
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        Open a name to connect to a server
      - nan(), nanf(), nanl()
        Return a quiet NaN
      - 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
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        Control a terminal's display
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        Return a rounded integer value
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        Compute the next representable double-precision floating-point number
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        Compute the next representable floating-point number in a given direction
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        Walk a file tree
      - nice()
        Returns 0
      - nl_langinfo()
        Get information about the language or cultural area defined in the current locale
      - nrand48()
        Generate a pseudo-random nonnegative long integer in a thread-safe manner
      - nsec2timespec()
        Convert nanoseconds to a timespec structure
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        Macros for working with the header of a trace event
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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:
nsdispatch()	FreeBSD documentation (https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=nsdispatch&manpath=FreeBSD+13.3-RELEASE+and+Ports) and Networking APIs in the High-Performance Networking Stack (io-sock) User's Guide.
ntohl(), ntohs()	FreeBSD documentation (https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=byteorder&manpath=FreeBSD+13.3-RELEASE+and+Ports) and Networking APIs in the High-Performance Networking Stack (io-sock) User's Guide.

Note the following:

nice() has no effect in QNX OS; use pthread_setschedparam() or SchedSet()

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

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