Purdue Cs 252 Midterm Study Guide Questions And Correct Answers

What is in the Inode list? {Ans: Lise of inodes, which has informaiton about the file and what blocks make the file. One Inode per file.}What is root? {Ans: User with special privileges to modify files anywhere in the system.}What are some examples of executable file formats? {Ans: ELF - Executable Link File (Linux) COFF - Common Object File Format (Windows)}What does the OS do to verify the correctness of the super block? {Ans: Super blocks are written to multiple locations in the disk in case it gets corrupted.}What does find do? {Ans: Recursively descend directories seeking files that match an expression, then executed command on them.}What properties does a process have? {Ans: PID: Index in process table Command and Arg Env Variables Current Dir Owner (UserID) Stdin/out/err}