THIS CHAPTER CONTINUES THE DISCUSSION of file operations begun in Chapter 15. It deals with indexed files, which have a much richer structure than sequential files. What distinguishes indexed files ...

CHAPTERS 13 AND 14 DESCRIBED OPENVMS FILES and presented methods for manipulating files as a whole. This chapter begins the presentation of DCL commands that operate on the contents of files: commands ...

In the beginning, the Linux kernel lacked any sort of virtual filesystem layer. See, for example, the 0.01 implementation of read(), which contained explicit checks for each possible file-descriptor ...

You can take advantage of asynchrony to perform resource-intensive I/O operations sans the need to block the main or the executing thread of the application. Asynchrony when used properly can increase ...