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Operating Systems Interview Questions

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Is there any advantage to handling the signal, rather than just ignoring it and checking for the EPIPE error? Are there any useful parameters passed to the signal catching function?

1418

How do I send [this] over a socket?

1 2232

How come select says there is data, but read returns zero?

1 2057

How can I force a socket to send the data in its buffer?

1612

What are the pros/cons of select(), non-blocking I/O and SIGIO?

1359

Why does it take so long to detect that the peer died?

1515

Why do I get EPROTO from read()?

1447

Where can a get a library for programming sockets?

1 2129

Whats the difference between select() and poll()?

1641

How do I use TCP_NODELAY?

1555

What is the difference between read() and recv()?

1968

After the chroot(), calls to socket() are failing. Why?

1 2178

When will my application receive SIGPIPE?

1 2299

How can I find the full hostname (FQDN) of the system I am running on?

1 2570

How can my client work through a firewall/proxy server?

1 2623

Un-Answered Questions { Operating Systems }

Is non-pre-emptive scheduling frequently used in a computer? Why?

1015

What command do you type to find help about the command who?

973

Can a stack be described as a pointer? Explain.

919

Should you optimize ssd?

923

Mention the data structures which are used in graph implementation.

873

Can you legally copy your own dvds?

909

What windows file history?

813

How do I make a program available to all users?

1042

How do you break the root password?

990

Can hashmap have duplicate keys?

895

Explain arm-stickiness?

1003

What is inode in unix operating system?

938

What key combination can you press to suspend a running job and place it in the background?

845

How do I run an exe file from command prompt?

1068

What is taskhostw exe?

919

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