2001年の初リリースから十余年、名称は当初の「Mac OS X」から「OS X」に、開発コードネームもネコ科大型動物からカリフォルニアの名所へと変更されたが、OS XのOSとしての根本部分は変わらない。NetBSDやFreeBSDなど他のPC-UNIXの成果物を取り入れつつ進化を図り ...

Every file a UNIX system has a unique inode. Processes interact with files using well defined system calls. The users specify a file with a character string which is the file's path and then the ...

The disk file structure defined in this project is consistent with the disk file structure of Unix V6++. The structure, as shown in the picture below, includes the SuperBlock, Disk Inode blocks, and ...

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 ...