CS208 Introduction to Computer Systems
Monday, 26 February 2024

+ Questions?

+ Understanding tech stuff
- How to do X?
- Why is X the way it is?
- What if Y were different? How would X change?
- Completing homework is good, but...
- ...why was this particular homework assigned?
    what lessons can I learn from this assignment?
   (e.g., how does assembly language accomplish
        C function-calling? what implications does
        this have for security, efficiency, recursion,
        etc.?)
- Does this have implications for people? Like what?
- ...
- (Hard to do when you're super-busy. Why are we so busy?)

+ Streams vs. files
- open/close/read/write (and sometimes seek)
- FILE (bad name; should be "STREAM")
    fopen, fclose   
        set up a data structure to keep track of
        how far we have read so far, or written so far,
        ...
    fread, fgets, fgetc
    fwrite, fputs, fputc
- files
    open, close, read, write, seek

+ "File descriptor" table

+ files.c

+ redirect.c