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.sh "System operation support
Unless noted otherwise, the calls in this section are permitted only to a privileged user. Bootstrap operations
The call mount(blkdev, dir, ronly); char *blkdev, *dir; int ronly; extends the UNIX name space. The mount call specifies a block device blkdev containing a UNIX file system to be made available starting at dir. If ronly is set then the file system is read-only; writes to the file system will not be permitted and access times will not be updated when files are referenced. Dir is normally a name in the root directory.
The call swapon(blkdev, size); char *blkdev; int size; specifies a device to be made available for paging and swapping.
Shutdown operations
The call unmount(dir); char *dir; unmounts the file system mounted on dir. This call will succeed only if the file system is not currently being used.
The call sync(); schedules input/output to clean all system buffer caches. (This call does not require privileged status.)
The call reboot(how) int how; causes a machine halt or reboot. The call may request a reboot by specifying how as RB_AUTOBOOT, or that the machine be halted with RB_HALT. These constants are defined in <sys/reboot.h>. Accounting
The system optionally keeps an accounting record in a file for each process that exits on the system. The format of this record is beyond the scope of this document. The accounting may be enabled to a file name by doing acct(path); char *path; If path is null, then accounting is disabled. Otherwise, the named file becomes the accounting file.