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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This November, the Unix community has another notable anniversary to celebrate: the 40th birthday of the first edition of Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie’s Unix Programmers Manual, released in ...

Dennis Ritchie, a computer czar who wrote the popular C programming language and helped develop the Unix operating system, has died. Ritchie, 70, was found dead on Wednesday at his home in Berkeley ...