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S. M. PalakolluPractical System Programming with Chttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6321-1_4

4. Files and Directories

Sri Manikanta Palakollu1 
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freelance, Hanuman Junction, Hanuman Junction, 521105, Andhra Pradesh, India
 
You have learned about command-line topics in Linux. You were introduced to multithreading and the practical implementation of multithreading in C. You saw API support in C to develop efficient applications. This chapter discusses files and directories. By the end of this chapter, you should have a deep knowledge of the core concepts regarding Linux files, directories, and storage mechanisms. The chapter’s code examples and discussions cover the following topics.

  • File system

  • Inodes and file metadata ...

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