Spring 2015





MIT EECS - 6.033

This paper requires an MIT personal certificate for access: 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).