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 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 ...