First, we divide the memory into blocks, which is the unit in which we read from and write into memory. In practice, the memory is usually sector-addressable. For simplicity, we make it ...

3.4 Cache structure Through the high-speed cache structure, it is possible to reduce the number of disk reads and writes, enhancing the efficiency of the file system. I have designated a cache control ...

Noobies often come to the point when they hear symbolic or soft links and hard links that; how do we create a hard link in Linux, UNIX, or macOS. Hard Link is a way to create a link that points to ...

A lot of information is available about individual files on a Unix system. For example, the ls -l command will display the permissions matrix and ls -i will display a file’s inode. But, if we want to ...

I am currently writing a version of File Tree Walk for my systems programming class for the UNIX operating system. I was wondering if there was a verion of the stat function that takes an inode number ...