In this project we have to implement a UNIX like file system simulator. cat command is implemented using file_cat() function. Inode of the requested file is determined by calling search_cur_dir(). The ...

First, we divide the memory into blocks, which is the unit in which we read from and write into memory. In practice, the memory is usually sector-addressable. For simplicity, we make it ...

The ls command is probably one of the first commands that anyone using Unix learns, but it only shows a small portion of the information that is available with the stat command. The stat command pulls ...

I am currently writing a version of File Tree Walk for my systems programming class for the UNIX operating system. I was wondering if there was a verion of the stat function that takes an inode number ...

A lot of information is available about individual files on a Unix system. For example, the ls -l command will display the permissions matrix and ls -i will display a file’s inode. But, if we want to ...

While the average Unix user is generally satisfied by the date/time stamps that he sees when using the ls -l command, it is sometimes useful to remember that there are actually several time stamps ...

Inodes are a fundamental element of any Linux web hosting platform. They are essentially the “building blocks” that enable your website to run smoothly and efficiently, but most people don’t even know ...