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OS Week9 Lab and Skill

This document provides instructions and examples for writing C programs that demonstrate functions for working with directories and files in Linux. It includes prototypes for 19 directory and file system calls. It also provides code samples that demonstrate using chdir and getcwd to navigate directories, chmod to change file permissions, and umask to check and change file permission masks. Additional tasks include writing a program to list only directories using macros, and implementing file locking using fcntl.

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OS Week9 Lab and Skill

This document provides instructions and examples for writing C programs that demonstrate functions for working with directories and files in Linux. It includes prototypes for 19 directory and file system calls. It also provides code samples that demonstrate using chdir and getcwd to navigate directories, chmod to change file permissions, and umask to check and change file permission masks. Additional tasks include writing a program to list only directories using macros, and implementing file locking using fcntl.

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WEEK-9 (DIRECTORIES AND FILES)

Pre-Lab Task:
1. Write the function prototypes for the following calls
1) opendir( ) :-
11) ftruncate( ):-
2) readdir( ):-
12) ioctl( ) :-
3) closedir( ):- 13) link( ):-
4) stat( ):- 14) mknod( ):-
5) lstat( ):-
15) sync( ):-
6) chown( ):-
16) truncate( ):-
7) chmod( ):-
17) mount( ):-
8) fchown( ):-
18) getcwd( ):-
9) fchmod( ):-
19) chdir( ):-
10) fcntl( ):-

2. Write a program to print list of files and folders in column format (dir.c) and demonstrate directory
navigation with chdir and getcwd ?
i) //Print list of files and folders ii) //Demonstrate directory navigation
#include<stdio.h> with chdir and getcwd
#include<unistd.h> #include <stdio.h>
int main() #include <dirent.h>
{ int main(void)
char s[100]; {
printf("%s\n", getcwd(s, 100)); struct dirent *de;
chdir(".."); DIR *dr = opendir(".");
printf("%s\n", getcwd(s, 100)); if (dr == NULL)
return 0; {
} printf("Could not open current directory" );
Output: return 0;
C:\Users\KLH\Documents }
C:\Users\KLH while ((de = readdir(dr)) != NULL)
printf("%s\n", de->d_name);
closedir(dr);
return 0;
}
Output:
My Music
My Pictures
ReadThisFirst.pdf
s.c
sg.cpp
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In Lab Task:
Steps of the Program:
• Open the Terminal.
• Then, you can see the logged in user with the $ symbol next to the username.
• $ means you are logged in as a regular user and the # means you are root user.

Problem Description:
1. Write a system program that demonstrates chmod( ), chown( ) System calls for changing file permissions.
i) //chmod()
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)


{
char mode[] = "0777";
char buf[100] = "hi.txt";
int i;
i = strtol(mode, 0, 8);
if (chmod (buf,i) < 0)
{
fprintf(stderr, "%s: error in chmod(%s, %s) - %d (%s)\n",
argv[0], buf, mode, errno, strerror(errno));
exit(1);
}
else
printf("Permission changed %s",mode);
return(0);
}
Output:
Permission changed 0777

ii) //chown()

2. umask returns the previous value of the mask. Unlike the shell’s umask statement, however,the umask system
call can’t display the current value of the mask without changing it. To use a workaround, store the current
mask by changing it to some arbitrary value, and then display it before restoring it. Write a Program that
Changes umask twice and checks effect on permissions.

SKILL EXERCISE 9:
1. Write a system program that lists only directories - Uses S_IFMT and S_ISDIR macros.

2. Write a UNIX system program to demonstrate file locking. Implementation of Sequence Number increment
problem with locking using fcntl( )

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