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What is the exact ingenuity of Unix pipe
I have heard the story of how Douglas Mcllroy came up with the concept and how Ken Thompson implemented it in one night.
As far as I understand, pipe is a system call which shares a piece of memory ...
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Why do we need fork to create new process
In Unix whenever we want to create a new process, we fork the current process i.e. we create a new child process which is exactly the same as the parent process and then we do exec system call to ...
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Round Robin - how to determine the optimal quantum of time?
I have to calculate the proper quantum of time for Round Robin process scheduling algorithm. As I read in Tanenbaum's book, the quantum of time should cover like 80% of the running time of all ...
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