/proc is very special in that it is a virtual filesystem. It’s sometimes referred to as a process information pseudo-file system. It doesn’t contain ‘real’ files but runtime system information (e.g. system memory, devices mounted, hardware configuration, etc).Inside the … Continue reading
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HEADER RCS head 1.1; access; symbols; locks; strict; comment @ * @; 1.1 date 2013.12.30.09.22.36; author raman; state Exp; branches; next ; desc @this is header file CLIENT RCS head 1.1; access; symbols; locks; strict; comment @ * @; 1.1 … Continue reading
Sockets are an inter-process network communication implementation using a Internet Protocol (IP) stack on an Ethernet transport. Sockets are language and protocol independent and available to “C”, Perl, Python, Ruby and Java (and more) programmers. The “C” language BSD API … Continue reading
Inter process communication using named pipes(FIFO) Earlier we saw the how to create pipes for communication between processes in linux. One of the major disadvantage of pipes is that the they can not be accesed using their names by any … Continue reading
The Linux Kernel In 1991, a Finnish student named Linus Benedict Torvalds made the kernel of a now popular operating system. He released Linux version 0.01 on September 1991, and on February 1992, he licensed the kernel under the GPL … Continue reading