Getting Information About Files
Explore how to obtain detailed information about files in operating systems by using the stat and fstat system calls. Understand the role of metadata, such as file size, ownership, and timestamps, and how inodes store this data persistently on disk for efficient file management.
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Beyond file access, we expect the file system to keep a fair amount of information about each file it is storing. We generally call such data about files metadata. To see the metadata for a certain file, we can use the stat() or fstat() system ...