[sf-lug] favorite interview questions

[Andrew E]

Linked lists.

Regardless of the language, the idea of a class (i.e. class List) having a
class inside of it (i.e. class Node) seems to be very important to a lot of
people.

That might be more of a developer question. I think there's a big difference
between questions that are asked to developers and questions asked to sys
admins.


On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 10:50 AM, jim <jim at well.com> wrote:

>
>
>   what are other standard interview questions?
>
>   someone asked me what's the default signal
> sent by the kill command  ( i said "15" ).
>
>
>
> On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 09:15 -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> > Quoting Grant Bowman (grantbow at gmail.com):
> >
> > > What is the sticky bit?
> >
> > Ah, one of my standard interview questions.  ;->
> >
> > > So what is a directory?  It is a special type of inode.  Each block
> > > group has it's own inode table that contains not only the file name
> > > and inode reference but in later ext2 "revisions" also contains a copy
> > > of the file type of the referenced inode.  I hope others on the list
> > > will find some of this useful.
> >
> > Tip:  Play around with the "stat" command, and you'll learn some
> > rather interesting things about what data are stored in inodes for files
> > you ask the "stat" command about (including for directories).
> >
> > $ stat /home/rick
> >   File: `rick'
> >   Size: 20480           Blocks: 40         IO Block: 4096   directory
> > Device: 903h/2307d      Inode: 162881      Links: 53
> > Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: ( 1000/    rick)   Gid: ( 1000/    rick)
> > Access: 2010-04-02 09:11:58.000000000 -0700
> > Modify: 2010-04-02 09:10:02.000000000 -0700
> > Change: 2010-04-02 09:10:02.000000000 -0700
> > $
> >
> >
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