golang/sys

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1350 stars · 625 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

golang/sys provides supplemental Go packages for low-level interaction with the operating system, including syscall wrappers, constants, and types across Linux, macOS, Windows, BSD, and other platforms. It is the official golang.org/x/sys library maintained by the Go team as a mirror of the upstream repository.

Use cases

• make raw system calls from Go
• query OS version and hardware info in Go
• interact with Windows APIs from Go
• use Unix domain sockets and ioctl in Go
• get process and memory information on Linux
• portable low-level OS access across platforms

When to choose

• you need syscall-level access beyond Go's standard os/syscall packages
• you want official, well-maintained Go bindings for OS primitives
• you need cross-platform low-level constants and types
• you're building system tools or daemons in Go

When to avoid

• you only need high-level file or process operations covered by the standard library
• you're not programming in Go
• you need a stable API guarantee - x/sys APIs can evolve

Facets

library · maturity stable

developer-tools file-system networking operating-systems developer-tools cross-platform windows bsd go system-calls os-interaction golang-org low-level unix windows-api linux macos

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