The introduction of USB standardized the way many devices connected to a whole range of different computers and operating systems. It introduced a standard that was capable of getting rid of all the ...

Haiku implements a standard library containing the standard functions from C (https://www.iso.org/standard/29237.html) and POSIX (https://pubs.opengroup.org ...

A struct that stores where in memory a BBuffer object is in memory as well as the buffer flags. More ...

MediaPlayer is the default player for all audio and video files. Thanks to its ffmpeg backend, a plethora of widely used formats are supported. Its simple interface has all the controls you'd expect: ...

Below you will find documentation on the Application Programming Interface (API) of the Haiku operating system. This API describes the internals of the operating system allowing developers to write ...

There are several types of objects a FS module has to deal with directly or indirectly: A vnode is the VFS representation of a node. As soon as an access to a node is requested, the VFS creates a ...

The BAlert class defines a modal alert dialog which displays a short message and provides a set of labeled buttons that allow the user to respond. More ...

The filesystems are organized in a hierarchy starting at the root directory (which has the path '/'). Unlike on typical UNIX systems, the root filsystem is not a mass storage filesystem that the OS ...

Set the entry_ref's leaf name, freeing the storage allocated for any previous name and then making a copy of the new name. A filesystem entry represented as a name in a concrete directory. entry_refs ...