This book excerpt is from chapter 1 of The Art of UNIX Programming by Eric S. Raymond, ISBN 0131429019, copyright 2004. All rights reserved. This part of chapter 1 ...

I am currently writing a version of File Tree Walk for my systems programming class for the UNIX operating system. I was wondering if there was a verion of the stat function that takes an inode number ...

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Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created. In August 1969, Ken Thompson, a programmer ...

Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created. In August 1969, Ken Thompson, a programmer ...

Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has successfully retrieved the contents of the over-half-a-century old ...