Monday, March 21, 2011

What are the Unix system calls for I/O?


Ø  open(pathname,flag,mode) - open file
Ø  creat(pathname,mode) - create file
Ø  close(filedes) - close an open file
Ø  read(filedes,buffer,bytes) - read data from an open file
Ø  write(filedes,buffer,bytes) - write data to an open file
Ø  lseek(filedes,offset,from) - position an open file
Ø  dup(filedes) - duplicate an existing file descriptor

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