COMP 3000 2012 Week 6 Notes
- Sun's NFS didn't use open or close
- look into this
- signal handlers shouldn't do I/O
- open
- translates a path and options into a file descriptor
- task_struct
- represents a "task" in the kernel
- a task can be a process or a thread
- has LOTS of fields
- task_struct on linux cross reference
- mount
- USB into linux shows up in /media/USBNAME
- VFS layer
- Virtual File System
- resources