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Operating Systems: Concurrent and Distributed Software Design
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Operating Systems: Concurrent and Distributed Software Design

by Jean Bacon, Tim Harris
March 2003
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
912 pages
27h 17m
English
Pearson Business
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24.4. File system interfaces

In this section we will consider the system calls that the UNIX kernel provides for managing the file system. In UNIX files are identified within a hierarchical file system namespace, as described in Chapter 6. A simple example is shown in Figure 24.3. The namespace available on a UNIX system has a single root although, as we shall see in Section 24.4.1, it may be assembled by mounting a number of separate file systems together. Normal files present an unstructured random-access byte-stream abstraction, unlike many of the operating systems contemporary with classical UNIX in which files were divided into a series of records.

Figure 24.3. The hierarchical file system namespace.

The namespace can also contain various ...

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