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Chapter 5 - Files and Directories

UNIX Systems Programming for SVR4
David A. Curry
 Copyright © 1996 O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.

Chapter 5: Files and Directories
Overview
Chapter 3, Low-Level I/O Routines, and Chapter 4, The Standard I/O Library, explained how to open and create files, and how to transfer data between a program and a file. For many types of application programs, this is all there is to it. But for systems programming, there are a number of other tasks that may be necessary, such as discovering the contents of directories, changing the ownership and permission bits of files, determining the last modification time of a file, figuring out whether a user has the permissions necessary to access a file, and so forth. These topics are the subject of this chapter.

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