Last week’s column looked at how we can read from and write to files by associated the files with user-defined file descriptors. This week, we take this idea a bit further. Closing File Descriptors In ...

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 ...

The DBF and DIF procedures give Windows, OS/2, OS/390, and UNIX users an alternative way of accessing DBF and DIF files. Instead of creating access descriptors and view descriptors, these users can ...