Questions tagged [operating-system]

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Determine if string input could be a valid directory in Python

python operating-system

asked 2013-07-09T21:05:26.063

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Differences between use of os.path.join and os.sep concatenation

python string path operating-system

asked 2013-05-28T10:27:37.570

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What is a thread-specific os.chdir and mkdir in python?

python multithreading operating-system

asked 2013-05-05T19:41:41.833

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Under which OS is Eclipse most robust?

java android xml operating-system

asked 2013-04-10T07:52:03.270

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CPU cache behaviour/policy for file-backed memory mappings?

c++ x86 operating-system cpu-architecture cpu-cache

asked 2013-04-06T16:53:23.873

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Javascript - Retrieve OS Date formatting

javascript date operating-system java-dateformat

asked 2013-04-05T13:10:51.880

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When is "worst fit in memory allocation" useful?

memory-management operating-system contiguous

asked 2013-03-27T00:39:15.663

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What's a Pthread?

multithreading operating-system

asked 2013-02-28T04:04:48.123

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Command for finding process using too much CPU

linux shell operating-system cpu

asked 2013-02-27T03:26:05.267

9

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How can assembly work on an Operating System?

assembly operating-system

asked 2013-02-26T18:32:16.887

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Running windows shell commands with python

python windows operating-system shell

asked 2013-02-15T11:29:43.943

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Whose responsibility is it to throw an exception?; OS or process?

c++ exception operating-system cpu

asked 2013-02-06T20:46:10.273

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Data structures used to build file systems?

data-structures operating-system filesystems

asked 2013-01-02T17:40:49.200

9

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Why Enable/Disable A20 Line

memory x86 operating-system bios osdev

asked 2012-12-15T14:28:03.117

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Does a page fault causes the faulting process to reschedule?

memory-management linux-kernel operating-system segmentation-fault swap

asked 2012-11-18T15:53:05.087

8

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.emacs code to identify OS?

macos ubuntu emacs operating-system elisp

asked 2012-11-10T22:48:09.997

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10

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Java get available memory

java performance web-services memory operating-system

asked 2012-10-09T20:19:14.233

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Kernel development and C++

c++ operating-system kernel

asked 2012-09-12T09:49:14.680

8

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What are the reasons to use "syscall" instead of calling the function directly?

c linux operating-system

asked 2012-09-05T16:35:49.497

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9

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How to move to one folder back in python

python operating-system

asked 2012-09-05T11:10:37.100

10

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how does the processor know an instruction is making a system call

operating-system kernel system-calls processor

asked 2012-09-01T10:33:39.540

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Do 32bit apps run faster or slower on a 64bit OS?

operating-system 32bit-64bit

asked 2012-09-01T04:06:57.460

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Available and used System Memory in Python?

python operating-system cross-platform

asked 2012-07-23T15:25:49.103

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Process VS thread : can two processes share the same shared memory ? can two threads?

multithreading process operating-system shared-memory

asked 2012-07-19T18:07:23.567

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How does the OS scheduler regain control of CPU?

multithreading operating-system multiprocessing scheduling multitasking

asked 2012-07-13T15:40:12.790

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Why does a memory address start with 0x?

c++ c linux memory operating-system

asked 2012-07-13T09:27:30.507

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How to detect my browser version and operating system using JavaScript?

javascript browser operating-system version

asked 2012-06-27T04:47:56.027

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In R, what's the canonical way to detect if the OS is 64-bit?

r operating-system 64-bit

asked 2012-06-22T15:22:32.917

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how to detect if a thread or process is getting starved due to OS scheduling

c++ linux operating-system job-scheduling ace

asked 2012-06-19T21:21:31.250

9

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how does the OS know the real size of the physical memory?

linux memory-management operating-system kernel

asked 2012-04-26T16:07:23.157

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what is difference between Software Stack and OS ? why Android is not an OS but software stack?

operating-system terminology

asked 2012-04-23T15:39:56.340

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Difference between Latency and Jitter in Operating-Systems

operating-system

asked 2012-04-10T09:02:38.583

8

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Where does the Transport Layer operate?

network-programming tcp operating-system layer osi

asked 2012-04-06T05:38:30.447

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Virtual Memory Page Replacement Algorithms

operating-system virtual-memory page-replacement

asked 2012-04-01T07:17:26.140

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Memory mapped IO - how is it done?

operating-system linux-kernel kernel device-driver

asked 2012-03-11T11:25:47.780

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How to get CPU info in C on Linux, such as number of cores?

c linux operating-system cpu

asked 2012-03-09T06:28:32.123

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Memory segmentation in modern operating systems

operating-system virtual-memory memory-segmentation

asked 2012-02-26T23:45:08.713

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Maximum number of processes in linux

linux process operating-system

asked 2012-02-20T13:19:09.127

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Does a context switch occur in a system whose ready queue has only one process and which uses round-robin scheduling?

operating-system scheduling round-robin

asked 2012-01-25T03:54:15.830

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Disable NSService context menu for multiple files selected in Finder

objective-c macos service operating-system finder

asked 2011-12-19T08:01:45.090

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What's the differences between blocking with synchronous, nonblocking and asynchronous?

multithreading io operating-system blocking synchronous

asked 2011-12-07T14:25:00.770

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Random time delay

c++ operating-system signals

asked 2011-09-28T01:39:37.523

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Python's os.listdir behaviour on Windows

python windows operating-system filepath

asked 2011-08-31T15:01:15.567

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What's the difference between io.open() and os.open() on Python?

python module io operating-system

asked 2011-08-28T07:03:07.233

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Changing bios code/flashing the bios

security assembly operating-system bios osdev

asked 2011-08-19T14:09:22.827

13

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Using C#, how to get whether my machine is 64bit or 32bit?

c# operating-system 32bit-64bit

asked 2011-08-11T19:48:30.870

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python mkdir to make folder with subfolder?

python operating-system directory mkdir

asked 2011-07-14T11:50:24.803

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Is memory allocation a system call?

c++ c operating-system heap-memory

asked 2011-06-30T05:34:37.390

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Why should I Minimize the use of system call in my code?

operating-system system-calls

asked 2011-06-21T11:46:46.507

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Differences (if any) among livelock and starvation in Operating systems

operating-system

asked 2011-06-20T13:21:41.230

Questions tagged operating-system