The following excerpt is from chapter 3, User-Level Memory Management, of Arnold Robbins’ book Linux Programming by Example: The Fundamentals, Prentice Hall PTR; (April 12, 2004), used with permission ...
One of the best investments in time that a person with a keen interest in operating systems can make is to explore them from multiple angles. Operating system installation and configuration can go a ...
The nblock() function reports how many disk blocks the file uses. This calculation is based on the file's size as returned by stat(). The V7 block size was 512 bytes--the size of a physical disk ...
Editor's Note: Embedded Linux has consistently ranked among the top operating systems used in embedded system design. With the rapid growth in interest in the Internet of Things (IoT), the ability of ...