[sf-lug] favorite interview questions

[Alex Kleider]

...and 'TERM', I think, would also have gotten you a passing grade:-)




--- On Sat, 4/3/10, jim <jim at well.com> wrote:

> From: jim <jim at well.com>
> Subject: [sf-lug] favorite interview questions
> To: "Rick Moen" <rick at linuxmafia.com>
> Cc: sf-lug at linuxmafia.com
> Date: Saturday, April 3, 2010, 10:50 AM
> 
> 
>    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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