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General Objectives

  • Who designed and implemented the original Unix operating system
  • Who wrote the first version of the UNIX shell
  • Who invented the B programming language (the direct predecessor to the C programming language)
  • Who is Ken Thompson
  • How does a shell work
  • What is a pid and a ppid
  • How to manipulate the environment of the current process
  • What is the difference between a function and a system call
  • How to create processes
  • What are the three prototypes of main
  • How does the shell use the PATH to find the programs
  • How to execute another program with the execve system call
  • How to suspend the execution of a process until one of its children terminates
  • What is EOF / “end-of-file”?

List of allowed functions and system calls

  • access (man 2 access)
  • chdir (man 2 chdir)
  • close (man 2 close)
  • closedir (man 3 closedir)
  • execve (man 2 execve)
  • exit (man 3 exit)
  • _exit (man 2 _exit)
  • fflush (man 3 fflush)
  • fork (man 2 fork)
  • free (man 3 free)
  • getcwd (man 3 getcwd)
  • getline (man 3 getline)
  • getpid (man 2 getpid)
  • isatty (man 3 isatty)
  • kill (man 2 kill)
  • malloc (man 3 malloc)
  • open (man 2 open)
  • opendir (man 3 opendir)
  • perror (man 3 perror)
  • read (man 2 read)
  • readdir (man 3 readdir)
  • signal (man 2 signal)
  • stat (__xstat) (man 2 stat)
  • lstat (__lxstat) (man 2 lstat)
  • fstat (__fxstat) (man 2 fstat)
  • strtok (man 3 strtok)
  • wait (man 2 wait)
  • waitpid (man 2 waitpid)
  • wait3 (man 2 wait3)
  • wait4 (man 2 wait4)
  • write (man 2 write)

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