Linux Application Development, Second Edition

Glossary

advisory locking

Locking that is not enforced: All processes that manipulate the locked files must explicitly check for the existence of locks. (276)

anonymous mapping

A mapping of memory that is not associated with an inode in a file system, limited to private use within a process. (269)

ar

The archiving utility used most often to create libraries. (79)

basic regular expression (BRE)

The type of string-matching expression used by the grep utility. (557)

big-endian

Multibyte values stored with the most significant byte in the lowest memory address or first byte transmitted, followed by the remainder of the bytes in order of significance. (430)

blocked signals

Signals that a process is not prepared to accept. Usually, signals are blocked for a short ...