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Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, The
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Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, The

by Marshall Kirk McKusick, George V. Neville-Neil
August 2004
Intermediate to advanced
720 pages
23h 44m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Glossary

absolute pathname

See pathname.

access control list (ACL)

An access control list replaces the group permissions for a file with a more specific list of the users that are permitted to access the files. The ACL also includes a list of the permissions that each user is granted. These permissions include the traditional read, write, and execute permissions along with other properties such as the right to rename or delete the file.

ACL

See access control list (ACL).

address family

A collection of related address formats, as found in a single communication domain. For example the IPv4 domain uses the Internet address family.

address resolution protocol (ARP)

A communication protocol used to map one network address to another dynamically. ...

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