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General Overview Of The System -- History -- System Structure -- User Perspective -- Operating System Services -- Assumptions About Hardware -- Introduction To The Kernel -- Architecture Of The Unix Operating System -- Introduction To System Concepts -- Kernel Data Structures -- System Administration -- Summary And Preview -- The Buffer Cache -- Buffer Headers -- Structure Of The Buffer Pool -- Scenarios For Retrieval Of A Buffer -- Reading And Writing Disk Blocks -- Advantages And Disadvantages Of The Buffer Cache -- Internal Representation Of Files -- Inodes -- Structure Of A Regular File -- Directories -- Conversion Of A Path Name To An Inode -- Super Block -- Inode Assignment To A New File -- Allocation Of Disk Blocks -- Other File Types -- System Calls For The File System -- Open -- Read -- Write -- File And Record Locking -- Adjusting The Position Of File I/o -- Lseek -- Close -- File Creation -- Creation Of Special Files -- Change Directory And Change Root --^ Change Owner And Change Mode -- Stat And Fstat -- Pipes -- Dup -- Mounting And Unmounting File Systems -- Link -- Unlink -- File System Abstractions -- File System Maintenance -- The Structure Of Processes -- Process S

Author

Maurice J. Bach

Publisher

Prentice-Hall,Inc

Published

1986

Language

EN

ISBN

9780132017572

Subjects

Computer Science, Programming, Reference

Rating

4.19 / 5 (462 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13