The purpose of this repository is to showcase implementations of Unix commands and OS-related utilities developed as part of college practical assignments. These programs illustrate concepts like file ...

O_RDONLY Open the file for read-only access. O_WRONLY Open the file for write-only access. O_RDWR Open the file for both reading and writing. O_CLOEXEC Set the close-on-exec flag for the file ...

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Ever wondered why programming in Bash is so difficult? Bash employs the same constructs as traditional programming languages; however, under the hood, the logic is rather different. The Bourne-Again ...

Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created. In August 1969, Ken Thompson, a programmer ...

Dennis Ritchie, the software developer who brought the world the C programming language and Unix operating system, has died at the age of 70. Ritchie (known by the username “dmr”) was part of a ...

In 1987, Unix System Laboratories, a part of Bell Labs at the time, began working with Sun on a system that would unify the two major Unix branches. The product of their collaboration, called Unix ...