The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System
by Marshall Kirk McKusick - Consultant, Keith Bostic - Berkeley Software Design, Inc., Michael J. Karels - Berkeley Software Design, Inc., John S. Quarterman - Texas Internet Consulting
Glossary
absolute pathname See pathname.
access rights In an operating system, the rights of processes to access system-maintained objects. For example, the ability to write data into a file. Rights are recognized and enforced by the system, and typically are associated with capabilities. The passing of access rights in messages is supported by the 4.4BSD interprocess-communication facilities. For example, the local communication domain supports the transmission of file descriptors and their associated access rights.
address family A collection of related address formats, as found in a communication domain.
address format A set of rules used in creating network addresses of a particular format. For example, in the Internet communication domain, ...
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