Homework Help Forum: operating system

Posted by Joe on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 4:32pm.

If /home/jenny/draft and /home/alex/letter are links to the same file and the following sequence of events occurs, what will be the date in the opening of the letter? a. Alex gives the command vim letter. b. Jenny gives the command vim draft. c. Jenny changes the date in the opening of the letter to January 31, 2003, writes the file, and exits from vi. d. Alex changes the date to February 1, 2003, writes the file, and exits from vim.

• operating system - MathMate, Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 5:35pm

  If they both have write access to the file, and the links are to the same file, it will be the last person who did a write that changes the date of the file. Sometimes the operating system is smart enough to lock other users out of writing when one user has write permission using, say, vim.

  
  

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