Operating systems 1 -- 2008-2009 -- info.uvt.ro/Laboratory 6

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File system topics

• file ownership;
• file protection modes;
• file types;
• links:
  • symbolic;
  • hard;
• mount points;
• references:
  • chown.1;
  • chmod.1;
  • ln.1;
  • du.1;
  • df.1;

Job management

• foreground and background processes;
• launching a background process;
• making a foreground process become a background one;
• making a background process become a foreground one;
• waiting for a process to finish;
• references:
  • Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide:
    • Job Control Commands;
  • jobs.1;
  • fg.1;
  • bg.1;
  • wait.1;

Process management

• querying existing processes;
• stopping a running processes;
• signals;
• priorities;
• references:
  • ps.1;
  • pstree.1;
  • kill.1;
  • pgrep.1;
  • pkill.1;
  • top.1;
  • nice.1;

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• Ciprian Dorin Crăciun, ccraciun@info.uvt.ro