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Andrew S. Tanenbaum (OS) Edition 4 Exercise 1 Question 28 (Page No. 83)
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To a programmer, a system call looks like any other call to a library procedure. Is it important that a programmer know which library procedures result in system calls? Under what circumstances and why?
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Andrew S. Tanenbaum (OS) Edition 4 Exercise 1 Question 23 (Page No. 82 - 83)
A file whose file descriptor is fd contains the following sequence of bytes$: 3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9, 2, 6, 5, 3, 5.$ The following system calls are made: lseek(fd, $3$, SEEK SET); read(fd, &buffer, $4$); where the lseek call makes a seek to byte $3$ of the file. What does buffer contain after the read has completed?
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Andrew S. Tanenbaum (OS) Edition 4 Exercise 1 Question 20 (Page No. 82)
For each of the following system calls, give a condition that causes it to fail: fork, exec, and unlink.
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Andrew S. Tanenbaum (OS) Edition 4 Exercise 1 Question 16 (Page No. 82)
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