• The write is one of the most basic routines provided by a Unix-like operating system kernel. It writes data from a buffer declared by the user to a given...
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    a system call (commonly abbreviated to syscall) is the programmatic way in which a computer program requests a service from the operating system on which...
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  • it is left unspecified whether the file position (if any) changes. write (system call) POSIX read C_Programming/C_Reference/stdio.h/fread at Wikibooks...
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  • illustrated book by Georges Jean write (system call), a system call that implements low-level file writing operations write (Unix), a Unix shell command that...
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  • faster than a fork that uses copy on write semantics. System V did not support this function call before System VR4 was introduced,[citation needed] because...
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    stat() is a Unix system call that returns file attributes about an inode. The semantics of stat() vary between operating systems. As an example, Unix...
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  • in this phase is to initiate a write system call, sending a dump of the binary to the attacker. The write system call has three params: socket, buffer...
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    Write amplification (WA) is an undesirable phenomenon associated with flash memory and solid-state drives (SSDs) where the actual amount of information...
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  • without an operating system—especially game software). BIOS runs in the real address mode (Real Mode) of the x86 CPU, so programs that call BIOS either must...
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  • storage sectors, files, and data structures). Copy-on-write finds its main use in operating systems, sharing the physical memory of computers running multiple...
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  • A write-in candidate is a candidate whose name does not appear on the ballot but seeks election by asking voters to cast a vote for the candidate by physically...
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    entries. When a system writes data to cache, it must at some point write that data to the backing store as well. The timing of this write is controlled...
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  • Linux-specific system call that moves data between a file descriptor and a pipe without a round trip to user space. The related system call vmsplice() moves...
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  • Btrfs (redirect from Copy-on-write B-tree)
    R.F.S.) is a computer storage format that combines a file system based on the copy-on-write (COW) principle with a logical volume manager (not to be confused...
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  • For most file systems, a program initializes access to a file in a file system using the open system call. This allocates resources associated to the...
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  • filesystem in 2001. Updating file systems to reflect changes to files and directories usually requires many separate write operations. This makes it possible...
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  • NTFS (redirect from NT File System)
    way of copying or moving files is to use the BackupRead and BackupWrite system calls, which allow programs to enumerate streams, to verify whether each...
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  • is well integrated into most Unix-like operating systems. Pipes are created using the pipe system call, which creates a new pipe and returns a pair of...
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  • Sync (Unix) (category System calls)
    The related system call fsync() commits just the buffered data relating to a specified file descriptor. fdatasync() is also available to write out just the...
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  • COREDUMP Dump core request WRITEI Internal form of write system call READI Internal form of read system call RSIGNAL Sendremote signal SYNCTIME Synchronize...
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  • Ioctl (category System calls)
    index number. For instance, exit() might be system call number 1, and write() number 4. The system call vector is then used to find the desired kernel...
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    transferred. If a computer program executes a system call to perform a block I/O write operation, then the system call might execute the following instructions:...
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  • most of its competitors." Antic (magazine)'s Gregg Pearlman writes, "You could call Write a "full-featured" word processor. It's GEM-based and it can...
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    are propagated throughout the system in a timely fashion. The following are the requirements for cache coherence: Write Propagation Changes to the data...
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  • write-ahead logging (WAL) is a family of techniques for providing atomicity and durability (two of the ACID properties) in database systems. A write ahead...
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  • Chmod (category File system permissions)
    In Unix and Unix-like operating systems, chmod is the command and system call used to change the access permissions and the special mode flags (the setuid...
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  • handling, and enabling the generation of the SIGTTOU signal by the write() system call The library functions are (in summary, for details see the main...
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  • by the kernel while signals are mediated by the kernel (possibly via system calls) and handled by individual processes.[citation needed] The kernel may...
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  • (local) procedure call, without the programmer explicitly writing the details for the remote interaction. That is, the programmer writes essentially the...
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  • DCE/RPC (category Remote procedure call)
    Procedure Calls", is the remote procedure call system developed for the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE). This system allows programmers to write distributed...
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