unix: POSIX functionality
This package gives you access to the set of operating system services standardised by POSIX.1-2008 (or the IEEE Portable Operating System Interface for Computing Environments - IEEE Std. 1003.1).
The package is not supported under Windows.
Modules
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- System
- System.Posix
- System.Posix.ByteString
- System.Posix.Directory
- System.Posix.DynamicLinker
- System.Posix.Env
- System.Posix.Error
- System.Posix.Fcntl
- System.Posix.Files
- System.Posix.IO
- PosixPath
- System.Posix.PosixString
- System.Posix.Process
- System.Posix.Resource
- System.Posix.Semaphore
- System.Posix.SharedMem
- System.Posix.Signals
- System.Posix.Temp
- System.Posix.Terminal
- System.Posix.Time
- System.Posix.Unistd
- System.Posix.User
- System.Posix
Flags
Manual Flags
| Name | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| non-portable-tests | Run tests that may not be portable across all systems, but are guaranteed to succeed in our own CI | Disabled |
Automatic Flags
| Name | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| os-string | Use the new os-string package | Disabled |
Use -f <flag> to enable a flag, or -f -<flag> to disable that flag. More info
Downloads
- unix-2.8.8.0.tar.gz [browse] (Cabal source package)
- Package description (revised from the package)
Note: This package has metadata revisions in the cabal description newer than included in the tarball. To unpack the package including the revisions, use 'cabal get'.
Maintainer's Corner
For package maintainers and hackage trustees
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| Versions [RSS] | 2.0, 2.2.0.0, 2.3.0.0, 2.3.1.0, 2.3.2.0, 2.4.0.0, 2.4.0.1, 2.4.0.2, 2.4.1.0, 2.4.2.0, 2.5.0.0, 2.5.1.0, 2.5.1.1, 2.6.0.0, 2.6.0.1, 2.7.0.0, 2.7.0.1, 2.7.1.0, 2.7.2.0, 2.7.2.1, 2.7.2.2, 2.7.3, 2.8.0.0, 2.8.1.0, 2.8.1.1, 2.8.2.0, 2.8.2.1, 2.8.3.0, 2.8.4.0, 2.8.5.0, 2.8.5.1, 2.8.6.0, 2.8.7.0, 2.8.8.0 |
|---|---|
| Change log | changelog.md |
| Dependencies | base (>=4.12.0.0 && <4.23), bytestring (>=0.9.2 && <0.13), filepath (>=1.4.100.0), os-string (>=2.0.0), time (>=1.9.1 && <1.17), unbuildable (<0) [details] |
| Tested with | ghc ==9.12.1, ghc ==9.10.1, ghc ==9.8.4, ghc ==9.6.6, ghc ==9.4.7, ghc ==9.2.8, ghc ==9.0.2, ghc ==8.10.7, ghc ==8.8.4, ghc ==8.6.5 |
| License | BSD-3-Clause |
| Author | |
| Maintainer | Julian Ospald <hasufell@posteo.de>, Viktor Dukhovni <ietf-dane@dukhovni.org>, Andrew Lelechenko <andrew.lelechenko@gmail.com> |
| Uploaded | by maerwald at 2025-09-23T08:10:23Z |
| Revised | Revision 1 made by Bodigrim at 2026-05-13T22:45:04Z |
| Category | System |
| Home page | https://github.com/haskell/unix |
| Bug tracker | https://github.com/haskell/unix/issues |
| Source repo | head: git clone https://github.com/haskell/unix.git |
| Distributions | Arch:2.8.4.0 |
| Reverse Dependencies | 733 direct, 15243 indirect [details] |
| Downloads | 91412 total (132 in the last 30 days) |
| Rating | 2.5 (votes: 3) [estimated by Bayesian average] |
| Your Rating | |
| Status | Docs available [build log] Last success reported on 2025-09-23 [all 1 reports] |