diff --git a/std/os/linux/index.zig b/std/os/linux/index.zig
index 7f27fc83d..aa2a6d85d 100644
--- a/std/os/linux/index.zig
+++ b/std/os/linux/index.zig
@@ -478,6 +478,126 @@ pub const CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM = 9;
 pub const CLOCK_SGI_CYCLE = 10;
 pub const CLOCK_TAI = 11;
 
+pub const CSIGNAL = 0x000000ff;
+pub const CLONE_VM = 0x00000100;
+pub const CLONE_FS = 0x00000200;
+pub const CLONE_FILES = 0x00000400;
+pub const CLONE_SIGHAND = 0x00000800;
+pub const CLONE_PTRACE = 0x00002000;
+pub const CLONE_VFORK = 0x00004000;
+pub const CLONE_PARENT = 0x00008000;
+pub const CLONE_THREAD = 0x00010000;
+pub const CLONE_NEWNS = 0x00020000;
+pub const CLONE_SYSVSEM = 0x00040000;
+pub const CLONE_SETTLS = 0x00080000;
+pub const CLONE_PARENT_SETTID = 0x00100000;
+pub const CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID = 0x00200000;
+pub const CLONE_DETACHED = 0x00400000;
+pub const CLONE_UNTRACED = 0x00800000;
+pub const CLONE_CHILD_SETTID = 0x01000000;
+pub const CLONE_NEWCGROUP = 0x02000000;
+pub const CLONE_NEWUTS = 0x04000000;
+pub const CLONE_NEWIPC = 0x08000000;
+pub const CLONE_NEWUSER = 0x10000000;
+pub const CLONE_NEWPID = 0x20000000;
+pub const CLONE_NEWNET = 0x40000000;
+pub const CLONE_IO = 0x80000000;
+
+pub const MS_RDONLY = 1;
+pub const MS_NOSUID = 2;
+pub const MS_NODEV = 4;
+pub const MS_NOEXEC = 8;
+pub const MS_SYNCHRONOUS = 16;
+pub const MS_REMOUNT = 32;
+pub const MS_MANDLOCK = 64;
+pub const MS_DIRSYNC = 128;
+pub const MS_NOATIME = 1024;
+pub const MS_NODIRATIME = 2048;
+pub const MS_BIND = 4096;
+pub const MS_MOVE = 8192;
+pub const MS_REC = 16384;
+pub const MS_SILENT = 32768;
+pub const MS_POSIXACL = (1<<16);
+pub const MS_UNBINDABLE = (1<<17);
+pub const MS_PRIVATE = (1<<18);
+pub const MS_SLAVE = (1<<19);
+pub const MS_SHARED = (1<<20);
+pub const MS_RELATIME = (1<<21);
+pub const MS_KERNMOUNT = (1<<22);
+pub const MS_I_VERSION = (1<<23);
+pub const MS_STRICTATIME = (1<<24);
+pub const MS_LAZYTIME = (1<<25);
+pub const MS_NOREMOTELOCK = (1<<27);
+pub const MS_NOSEC = (1<<28);
+pub const MS_BORN = (1<<29);
+pub const MS_ACTIVE = (1<<30);
+pub const MS_NOUSER = (1<<31);
+
+pub const MS_RMT_MASK = (MS_RDONLY|MS_SYNCHRONOUS|MS_MANDLOCK|MS_I_VERSION|MS_LAZYTIME);
+
+pub const MS_MGC_VAL = 0xc0ed0000;
+pub const MS_MGC_MSK = 0xffff0000;
+
+pub const MNT_FORCE = 1;
+pub const MNT_DETACH = 2;
+pub const MNT_EXPIRE = 4;
+pub const UMOUNT_NOFOLLOW = 8;
+
+
+pub const S_IFMT = 0o170000;
+
+pub const S_IFDIR = 0o040000;
+pub const S_IFCHR = 0o020000;
+pub const S_IFBLK = 0o060000;
+pub const S_IFREG = 0o100000;
+pub const S_IFIFO = 0o010000;
+pub const S_IFLNK = 0o120000;
+pub const S_IFSOCK = 0o140000;
+
+pub const S_ISUID = 0o4000;
+pub const S_ISGID = 0o2000;
+pub const S_ISVTX = 0o1000;
+pub const S_IRUSR = 0o400;
+pub const S_IWUSR = 0o200;
+pub const S_IXUSR = 0o100;
+pub const S_IRWXU = 0o700;
+pub const S_IRGRP = 0o040;
+pub const S_IWGRP = 0o020;
+pub const S_IXGRP = 0o010;
+pub const S_IRWXG = 0o070;
+pub const S_IROTH = 0o004;
+pub const S_IWOTH = 0o002;
+pub const S_IXOTH = 0o001;
+pub const S_IRWXO = 0o007;
+
+pub fn S_ISREG(m: u32) bool {
+    return m & S_IFMT == S_IFREG;
+}
+
+pub fn S_ISDIR(m: u32) bool {
+    return m & S_IFMT == S_IFDIR;
+}
+
+pub fn S_ISCHR(m: u32) bool {
+    return m & S_IFMT == S_IFCHR;
+}
+
+pub fn S_ISBLK(m: u32) bool {
+    return m & S_IFMT == S_IFBLK;
+}
+
+pub fn S_ISFIFO(m: u32) bool {
+    return m & S_IFMT == S_IFIFO;
+}
+
+pub fn S_ISLNK(m: u32) bool {
+    return m & S_IFMT == S_IFLNK;
+}
+
+pub fn S_ISSOCK(m: u32) bool {
+    return m & S_IFMT == S_IFSOCK;
+}
+
 pub const TFD_NONBLOCK = O_NONBLOCK;
 pub const TFD_CLOEXEC = O_CLOEXEC;
 
@@ -515,6 +635,10 @@ pub fn chdir(path: &const u8) usize {
     return syscall1(SYS_chdir, @ptrToInt(path));
 }
 
+pub fn chroot(path: &const u8) usize {
+    return syscall1(SYS_chroot, @ptrToInt(path));
+}
+
 pub fn execve(path: &const u8, argv: &const ?&const u8, envp: &const ?&const u8) usize {
     return syscall3(SYS_execve, @ptrToInt(path), @ptrToInt(argv), @ptrToInt(envp));
 }
@@ -544,6 +668,18 @@ pub fn mkdir(path: &const u8, mode: u32) usize {
     return syscall2(SYS_mkdir, @ptrToInt(path), mode);
 }
 
+pub fn mount(special: &const u8, dir: &const u8, fstype: &const u8, flags: usize, data: usize) usize {
+    return syscall5(SYS_mount, @ptrToInt(special), @ptrToInt(dir), @ptrToInt(fstype), flags, data);
+}
+
+pub fn umount(special: &const u8) usize {
+    return syscall2(SYS_umount2, @ptrToInt(special), 0);
+}
+
+pub fn umount2(special: &const u8, flags: u32) usize {
+    return syscall2(SYS_umount2, @ptrToInt(special), flags);
+}
+
 pub fn mmap(address: ?&u8, length: usize, prot: usize, flags: usize, fd: i32, offset: isize) usize {
     return syscall6(SYS_mmap, @ptrToInt(address), length, prot, flags, usize(fd),
         @bitCast(usize, offset));
@@ -650,6 +786,58 @@ pub fn setregid(rgid: u32, egid: u32) usize {
     return syscall2(SYS_setregid, rgid, egid);
 }
 
+pub fn getuid() u32 {
+    return u32(syscall0(SYS_getuid));
+}
+
+pub fn getgid() u32 {
+    return u32(syscall0(SYS_getgid));
+}
+
+pub fn geteuid() u32 {
+    return u32(syscall0(SYS_geteuid));
+}
+
+pub fn getegid() u32 {
+    return u32(syscall0(SYS_getegid));
+}
+
+pub fn seteuid(euid: u32) usize {
+    return syscall1(SYS_seteuid, euid);
+}
+
+pub fn setegid(egid: u32) usize {
+    return syscall1(SYS_setegid, egid);
+}
+
+pub fn getresuid(ruid: &u32, euid: &u32, suid: &u32) usize {
+    return syscall3(SYS_getresuid, @ptrToInt(ruid), @ptrToInt(euid), @ptrToInt(suid));
+}
+
+pub fn getresgid(rgid: &u32, egid: &u32, sgid: &u32) usize {
+    return syscall3(SYS_getresgid, @ptrToInt(rgid), @ptrToInt(egid), @ptrToInt(sgid));
+}
+
+pub fn setresuid(ruid: u32, euid: u32, suid: u32) usize {
+    return syscall3(SYS_setresuid, ruid, euid, suid);
+}
+
+pub fn setresgid(rgid: u32, egid: u32, sgid: u32) usize {
+    return syscall3(SYS_setresgid, rgid, egid, sgid);
+}
+
+pub fn getgroups(size: usize, list: &u32) usize {
+    return syscall2(SYS_getgroups, size, @ptrToInt(list));
+}
+
+pub fn setgroups(size: usize, list: &const u32) usize {
+    return syscall2(SYS_setgroups, size, @ptrToInt(list));
+}
+
+pub fn getpid() i32 {
+    return @bitCast(i32, u32(syscall0(SYS_getpid)));
+}
+
 pub fn sigprocmask(flags: u32, noalias set: &const sigset_t, noalias oldset: ?&sigset_t) usize {
     return syscall4(SYS_rt_sigprocmask, flags, @ptrToInt(set), @ptrToInt(oldset), NSIG/8);
 }
@@ -833,6 +1021,71 @@ pub fn fstat(fd: i32, stat_buf: &Stat) usize {
     return syscall2(SYS_fstat, usize(fd), @ptrToInt(stat_buf));
 }
 
+pub fn stat(pathname: &const u8, statbuf: &Stat) usize {
+    return syscall2(SYS_stat, @ptrToInt(pathname), @ptrToInt(statbuf));
+}
+
+pub fn lstat(pathname: &const u8, statbuf: &Stat) usize {
+    return syscall2(SYS_lstat, @ptrToInt(pathname), @ptrToInt(statbuf));
+}
+
+pub fn listxattr(path: &const u8, list: &u8, size: usize) usize {
+    return syscall3(SYS_listxattr, @ptrToInt(path), @ptrToInt(list), size);
+}
+
+pub fn llistxattr(path: &const u8, list: &u8, size: usize) usize {
+    return syscall3(SYS_llistxattr, @ptrToInt(path), @ptrToInt(list), size);
+}
+
+pub fn flistxattr(fd: usize, list: &u8, size: usize) usize {
+    return syscall3(SYS_flistxattr, fd, @ptrToInt(list), size);
+}
+
+pub fn getxattr(path: &const u8, name: &const u8, value: &void, size: usize) usize {
+    return syscall4(SYS_getxattr, @ptrToInt(path), @ptrToInt(name), @ptrToInt(value), size);
+}
+
+pub fn lgetxattr(path: &const u8, name: &const u8, value: &void, size: usize) usize {
+    return syscall4(SYS_lgetxattr, @ptrToInt(path), @ptrToInt(name), @ptrToInt(value), size);
+}
+
+pub fn fgetxattr(fd: usize, name: &const u8, value: &void, size: usize) usize {
+    return syscall4(SYS_lgetxattr, fd, @ptrToInt(name), @ptrToInt(value), size);
+}
+
+pub fn setxattr(path: &const u8, name: &const u8, value: &const void,
+    size: usize, flags: usize) usize {
+
+    return syscall5(SYS_setxattr, @ptrToInt(path), @ptrToInt(name), @ptrToInt(value),
+        size, flags);
+}
+
+pub fn lsetxattr(path: &const u8, name: &const u8, value: &const void,
+    size: usize, flags: usize) usize {
+
+    return syscall5(SYS_lsetxattr, @ptrToInt(path), @ptrToInt(name), @ptrToInt(value),
+        size, flags);
+}
+
+pub fn fsetxattr(fd: usize, name: &const u8, value: &const void,
+    size: usize, flags: usize) usize {
+
+    return syscall5(SYS_fsetxattr, fd, @ptrToInt(name), @ptrToInt(value),
+        size, flags);
+}
+
+pub fn removexattr(path: &const u8, name: &const u8) usize {
+    return syscall2(SYS_removexattr, @ptrToInt(path), @ptrToInt(name));
+}
+
+pub fn lremovexattr(path: &const u8, name: &const u8) usize {
+    return syscall2(SYS_lremovexattr, @ptrToInt(path), @ptrToInt(name));
+}
+
+pub fn fremovexattr(fd: usize, name: &const u8) usize {
+    return syscall2(SYS_fremovexattr, fd, @ptrToInt(name));
+}
+
 pub const epoll_data = packed union {
     ptr: usize,
     fd: i32,
@@ -878,6 +1131,125 @@ pub fn timerfd_settime(fd: i32, flags: u32, new_value: &const itimerspec, old_va
     return syscall4(SYS_timerfd_settime, usize(fd), usize(flags), @ptrToInt(new_value), @ptrToInt(old_value));
 }
 
+pub const _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_1 = 0x19980330;
+pub const _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S_1    = 1;
+
+pub const _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_2 = 0x20071026;
+pub const _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S_2    = 2;
+
+pub const _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_3 = 0x20080522;
+pub const _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S_3    = 2;
+
+pub const VFS_CAP_REVISION_MASK   = 0xFF000000;
+pub const VFS_CAP_REVISION_SHIFT  = 24;
+pub const VFS_CAP_FLAGS_MASK      = ~VFS_CAP_REVISION_MASK;
+pub const VFS_CAP_FLAGS_EFFECTIVE = 0x000001;
+
+pub const VFS_CAP_REVISION_1 = 0x01000000;
+pub const VFS_CAP_U32_1      = 1;
+pub const XATTR_CAPS_SZ_1    = @sizeOf(u32)*(1 + 2*VFS_CAP_U32_1);
+
+pub const VFS_CAP_REVISION_2 = 0x02000000;
+pub const VFS_CAP_U32_2      = 2;
+pub const XATTR_CAPS_SZ_2    = @sizeOf(u32)*(1 + 2*VFS_CAP_U32_2);
+
+pub const XATTR_CAPS_SZ      = XATTR_CAPS_SZ_2;
+pub const VFS_CAP_U32        = VFS_CAP_U32_2;
+pub const VFS_CAP_REVISION   = VFS_CAP_REVISION_2;
+
+pub const vfs_cap_data = extern struct {
+    //all of these are mandated as little endian
+    //when on disk.
+    const Data = struct {
+        permitted: u32,
+        inheritable: u32,
+    };
+
+    magic_etc: u32,
+    data:  [VFS_CAP_U32]Data,
+};
+
+
+pub const CAP_CHOWN             = 0;
+pub const CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE      = 1;
+pub const CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH   = 2;
+pub const CAP_FOWNER            = 3;
+pub const CAP_FSETID            = 4;
+pub const CAP_KILL              = 5;
+pub const CAP_SETGID            = 6;
+pub const CAP_SETUID            = 7;
+pub const CAP_SETPCAP           = 8;
+pub const CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE   = 9;
+pub const CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE  = 10;
+pub const CAP_NET_BROADCAST     = 11;
+pub const CAP_NET_ADMIN         = 12;
+pub const CAP_NET_RAW           = 13;
+pub const CAP_IPC_LOCK          = 14;
+pub const CAP_IPC_OWNER         = 15;
+pub const CAP_SYS_MODULE        = 16;
+pub const CAP_SYS_RAWIO         = 17;
+pub const CAP_SYS_CHROOT        = 18;
+pub const CAP_SYS_PTRACE        = 19;
+pub const CAP_SYS_PACCT         = 20;
+pub const CAP_SYS_ADMIN         = 21;
+pub const CAP_SYS_BOOT          = 22;
+pub const CAP_SYS_NICE          = 23;
+pub const CAP_SYS_RESOURCE      = 24;
+pub const CAP_SYS_TIME          = 25;
+pub const CAP_SYS_TTY_CONFIG    = 26;
+pub const CAP_MKNOD             = 27;
+pub const CAP_LEASE             = 28;
+pub const CAP_AUDIT_WRITE       = 29;
+pub const CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL     = 30;
+pub const CAP_SETFCAP           = 31;
+pub const CAP_MAC_OVERRIDE      = 32;
+pub const CAP_MAC_ADMIN         = 33;
+pub const CAP_SYSLOG            = 34;
+pub const CAP_WAKE_ALARM        = 35;
+pub const CAP_BLOCK_SUSPEND     = 36;
+pub const CAP_AUDIT_READ        = 37;
+pub const CAP_LAST_CAP          = CAP_AUDIT_READ;
+
+pub fn cap_valid(u8: x) bool {
+    return x >= 0 and x <= CAP_LAST_CAP;
+}
+
+pub fn CAP_TO_MASK(cap: u8) u32 {
+    return u32(1) << u5(cap & 31);
+}
+
+pub fn CAP_TO_INDEX(cap: u8) u8 {
+    return cap >> 5;
+}
+
+pub const cap_t = extern struct {
+    hdrp: &cap_user_header_t,
+    datap: &cap_user_data_t,
+};
+
+pub const cap_user_header_t = extern struct {
+    version: u32,
+    pid: usize,
+};
+
+pub const cap_user_data_t = extern struct {
+    effective: u32,
+    permitted: u32,
+    inheritable: u32,
+};
+
+pub fn unshare(flags: usize) usize {
+    return syscall1(SYS_unshare, usize(flags));
+}
+
+pub fn capget(hdrp: &cap_user_header_t, datap: &cap_user_data_t) usize {
+    return syscall2(SYS_capget, @ptrToInt(hdrp), @ptrToInt(datap));
+}
+
+pub fn capset(hdrp: &cap_user_header_t, datap: &const cap_user_data_t) usize {
+    return syscall2(SYS_capset, @ptrToInt(hdrp), @ptrToInt(datap));
+}
+
 test "import linux test" {
     // TODO lazy analysis should prevent this test from being compiled on windows, but
     // it is still compiled on windows