Exercise
Enhance your understanding by getting hands-on practice with this exercise on the topic of files and directories!
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In this exercise, we’ll just familiarize ourselves with how the APIs described in the chapter work. To do so, you’ll just write a few different programs, mostly based on various UNIX utilities.
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Questions
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Stat: Write your own version of the command line program
stat, which simply calls thestat()system call on a given file or directory. Print out file size, number of blocks allocated, ...