CS 3733 Operating Systems
Lecture 8 [1/30/98]: Implications of the FDT for Process Management
Reading: Section 3.3.2, 3.3.3 and 3.4 of PUP
- Basic description of the file descriptor table in Unix.
- ANSI C standard I/O versus the Unix I/O library (PUP 3.3.2)
and buffering implications.
- Inheritance of file descriptors on
fork (PUP 3.3.3)
- Filters and redirection.
SKILL: Understand the implications of inheritance in some simple cases.
Revision Date: 2/2/98