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Storage Systems and I/O: Organizing, Storing, and Accessing Data for Scientific Discovery

2019-06-25

Storage Systems and I/O: Organizing, Storing, and Accessing Data for Scientific Discovery, Robert Ross, Lee Ward, Philip Carns, Gary Grider, Scott Klasky, Quincey Koziol, Glenn K. Lockwood, Kahthryn Mohror, Bradley Settlemyer, and Matthew Wolf, United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.2172/1491994. Google brought this to my attention recently because I’ve set triggers for people citing […]

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Of file handles and implicit offsets (Follow-up)

2017-12-02

My post about file handles elicited some interesting feedback, so I wanted to capture it because I thought it provided some insight. Shared libraries were not a standard part of UNIX systems in the 1980s (though they had certainly been described in prior work) and thus one interesting observation here is that putting code in […]

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Of file handles and implicit offsets

2017-11-25

My current research direction (which is wandering a bit, as is common with research) has forced me to look as some of the vagaries of the POSIX interface.  One of these is this intriguing decision to incorporate a piece of file descriptor specific state for the “file pointer” (note that in Windows there is an […]

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