Structure of inodes as stored on the disk 2. 8 points UNIX designers

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2. [8 points]: The UNIX designers chose to have the process created by a fork() share (inherit) the open file descriptors of its parent.

Which of the following would become more complicated had they decided on an alternate fork() semantics, in which the child process is created with no open file descriptors?

Structure of inodes as stored on the disk.

A True

B False

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Explanation:

FALSE. The structure of inodes is not affected by the way in which file descriptors are passed from parents to children.

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Computer System Engineering 6.033 Spring 2006

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Attribution: Morris, Robert, and Samuel Madden. 6.033 Computer System Engineering, Spring 2009. (MIT OpenCourseWare: Massachusetts Institute of Technology), http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-033-computer-system-engineering-spring-2009 (Accessed 2 May, 2014). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

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