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Andrew S. Tanenbaum (OS) Edition 4 Exercise 1 Question 25 (Page No. 83)

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  • Block special File comprises of numbered blocks.
  • A character special file grants an access to the deice that fetches in crments of the single character.
  • They can be written or read independently of others.
  • We can look for any block and start writing and reading.
  • It is not viable with character special files.

 

 

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