Summary

rsyscall provides an interface to an ever-growing subset of Linux system calls. This interface is:

• process-independent: all system calls are called as methods on process objects, which can refer to the “local” process or to other processes under our control.
• type-safe: many Linux API constraints, which are usually left to user code to enforce, are made explicit in the type system.
• low-level: any action which is possible with the underlying Linux APIs, is possible with rsyscall; nothing is forbidden or discouraged.

For more detail on the concepts and motivation behind rsyscall, read the conceptual introduction.

Quick Start

Check out the docs at rsyscall.org.

Note that the rsyscall Python API uses some recent Python 3 features: async/await and type annotations. If you haven’t seen those before, skim the background tutorial first.

Installation

There’s no official release of rsyscall yet.

But, if you want to try it, you can do so with Nix:

git clone https://github.com/catern/rsyscall
cd rsyscall/python
nix-shell
python

Discussion

irc://irc.oftc.net/#rsyscall