Unix programming

A/An _______ is defined as the software that controls the hardware resources of the computer and provides an environment under which programs can run

A _____ is a relatively small and resides at the core of the computer environment

• kernel

• Operating System

• Shell

• System call

A pathname that begins with a slash is called an absolute pathname

• TRUE

• FALSE

A _____ is a command-line interpreter that reads user input and executes commands

• operating system

• kernel

• shell

• system call

The only two characters that cannot appear in a filename are the ______________ character  and the null character.                                                                                                         

When we log-in, the working directory is set to our _______ directory

• current

• root

• home

• etc

_____ are normally small non-negative integers that the kernel uses to identify the files accessed by a process.

• File Identifiers

• File Systems

• File ID

• File Descriptors

A _____ is an executable file residing on disk in a directory.

Every process has a unique numeric identifier called the process __________.

• number

• Descriptor

• ID

• identification

The _____ command creates a new process, as copy of the caller.

• status

• fork

• new

• create