After the command line is terminated by the key, the shel goes ahead  with processing the command line in one or more passes. The sequence is well defined and assumes the following order.Parsing: The shell first breaks up the command line into words, using spaces and the delimiters, unless quoted. All consecutive occurrences of a space or tab are replaced here with a single space.Variable evaluation:...

athotaashok

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• Feb 21st, 2006

When processing a command the searchs for the utility for the command in the directories specified in the PATH varible and it in invokes that utility. That utility will execute the command with help of kernel and the output is given to shell. And then the displays out put to the user.

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Kernel checks 'type' field in the file's inode structure.

umesh

• Feb 15th, 2006

device filles are of 2 types --- charcater device file and block device filetype field in the file's inode structureb--- block device filec--- character device file

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1. To which operating system is GNU/Linux compatible? a. Windows b. Unix c. it\'s a system on it\'s own d. don\'t know2. What is the origin of GNU/Linux? a. 1984 by Richard Stallman b. 1987 by Andrew Tannenbaum c. 1991 by Linus Torvalds d. don\'t know3. What has Linus Torvalds developed? a. he developed the whole system b. he developed the kernel of the system c. he is only...

manish upadhyay

• Feb 6th, 2006

1.c 2.a 3.b 4.a 5.c 6.c 7.b 8.c 9.b 10.b11.b 12.c 13.b 14.a 15.a 16.a 17.c

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chandu

• Jan 27th, 2006

The process of packing one or more items of data into a message buffer, prior to transmitting that message buffer over a communication channel. The packing process not only collects together values wh...

shan

• Dec 7th, 2005

In a distributed environment, client sends its request as a bundle. its like adding header to the data. This process of bundling data is called marshelling.

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sumit01_77

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• Jan 25th, 2006

In simple terms a Semaphore is a unit or resource which is used for synchrosation between two processes , it is kind of flag (in abstract terms) which every process will check before processing ahead to avoid the deadlock situationAshish

praveenlaxmipalem

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• Nov 25th, 2005

A semaphore is a type of Interprocess communication resource used for synchronization and mutual exclusion between any two asynchronous processes.

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Explain about Background and Foreground processes

Manjunath Doddamani NSC Banagalore

• Jan 25th, 2006

Job controlThe C shell handles job control, which allows the user to run certain programs in the background, and recall them to the foreground when necessary. In order to place a running process into ...

apiplani

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• Jan 2nd, 2006

Job control in Unix means controlling the execution of jobs. Using fg (foreground), bg(background), jobs, kill, nice etc.. you can actually control the priorities, order and the number of jobs which are being processed. The effective use of these commands is called Job control.

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neetu

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• Dec 23rd, 2005

both are same. daemons are the background processes in unix. similarly background processes in windows are called as service agents or service processes.

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Yes, it stands for ‘disk usage’. With the help of this command you can find the disk capacity and free space of the disk.

anil piplani

• Dec 3rd, 2005

Thats right.. du gives you "disk used" and not free disk space. some of the options for du are : du -k   : returns the disk usage in KBsdu -k : gives the disk usage by direcotry and all its sub-directories in KBs

raki_ch

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• Nov 4th, 2005

"du" reports the disk usage by each sub-dir under the current directory. "du" *does not* show the free disk space. Use "df" for this.

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Ravindra Garg

• Nov 10th, 2005

NTFS--NTFS is a high-performance and self-healing file system proprietary to Windows XP 2000 NT, which supports file-level security, compression and auditing. It also supports large volumes and powerf...

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Answer: Stop+N

Sreedhar_1109

• Oct 20th, 2005

Press power button two times, while reseting.

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suraj

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• Oct 17th, 2005

Component Object Model, or COM, is a Microsoft platform for software componentry. It is used to enable cross-application communication and dynamic object creation in any programming language that supp...

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