MIT EECS - 6.033
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The UNIX Time-Sharing System. The recitation on Feb. 12 will
focus on the first four sections of the paper; the recitation on
Feb. 19 will focus on the rest.
Question for Recitation
Suppose a user of a UNIX system wants to open the file
/home/example.txt . What does the UNIX file system do in order to
find the file's contents, given the path name? Describe in detail
(e.g. at the i-node level).
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