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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
11
votes
2
answers
Differences between use of os.path.join and os.sep concatenation
python
string
path
operating-system
asked 2013-05-28T10:27:37.570
15
votes
3
answers
What is a thread-specific os.chdir and mkdir in python?
python
multithreading
operating-system
asked 2013-05-05T19:41:41.833
8
votes
8
answers
Under which OS is Eclipse most robust?
java
android
xml
operating-system
asked 2013-04-10T07:52:03.270
16
votes
2
answers
CPU cache behaviour/policy for file-backed memory mappings?
c++
x86
operating-system
cpu-architecture
cpu-cache
asked 2013-04-06T16:53:23.873
9
votes
1
answers
Javascript - Retrieve OS Date formatting
javascript
date
operating-system
java-dateformat
asked 2013-04-05T13:10:51.880
10
votes
1
answers
When is "worst fit in memory allocation" useful?
memory-management
operating-system
contiguous
asked 2013-03-27T00:39:15.663
11
votes
3
answers
What's a Pthread?
multithreading
operating-system
asked 2013-02-28T04:04:48.123
8
votes
2
answers
Command for finding process using too much CPU
linux
shell
operating-system
cpu
asked 2013-02-27T03:26:05.267
9
votes
4
answers
How can assembly work on an Operating System?
assembly
operating-system
asked 2013-02-26T18:32:16.887
79
votes
7
answers
Running windows shell commands with python
python
windows
operating-system
shell
asked 2013-02-15T11:29:43.943
17
votes
3
answers
Whose responsibility is it to throw an exception?; OS or process?
c++
exception
operating-system
cpu
asked 2013-02-06T20:46:10.273
42
votes
1
answers
Data structures used to build file systems?
data-structures
operating-system
filesystems
asked 2013-01-02T17:40:49.200
9
votes
1
answers
Why Enable/Disable A20 Line
memory
x86
operating-system
bios
osdev
asked 2012-12-15T14:28:03.117
10
votes
1
answers
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
votes
2
answers
.emacs code to identify OS?
macos
ubuntu
emacs
operating-system
elisp
asked 2012-11-10T22:48:09.997
97
votes
10
answers
Java get available memory
java
performance
web-services
memory
operating-system
asked 2012-10-09T20:19:14.233
31
votes
9
answers
Kernel development and C++
c++
operating-system
kernel
asked 2012-09-12T09:49:14.680
8
votes
1
answers
What are the reasons to use "syscall" instead of calling the function directly?
c
linux
operating-system
asked 2012-09-05T16:35:49.497
48
votes
9
answers
How to move to one folder back in python
python
operating-system
asked 2012-09-05T11:10:37.100
10
votes
5
answers
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
17
votes
1
answers
Do 32bit apps run faster or slower on a 64bit OS?
operating-system
32bit-64bit
asked 2012-09-01T04:06:57.460
92
votes
1
answers
Available and used System Memory in Python?
python
operating-system
cross-platform
asked 2012-07-23T15:25:49.103
20
votes
4
answers
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
76
votes
3
answers
How does the OS scheduler regain control of CPU?
multithreading
operating-system
multiprocessing
scheduling
multitasking
asked 2012-07-13T15:40:12.790
19
votes
2
answers
Why does a memory address start with 0x?
c++
c
linux
memory
operating-system
asked 2012-07-13T09:27:30.507
173
votes
13
answers
How to detect my browser version and operating system using JavaScript?
javascript
browser
operating-system
version
asked 2012-06-27T04:47:56.027
11
votes
1
answers
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
9
votes
1
answers
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
votes
3
answers
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
15
votes
1
answers
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
8
votes
2
answers
Difference between Latency and Jitter in Operating-Systems
operating-system
asked 2012-04-10T09:02:38.583
8
votes
4
answers
Where does the Transport Layer operate?
network-programming
tcp
operating-system
layer
osi
asked 2012-04-06T05:38:30.447
22
votes
1
answers
Virtual Memory Page Replacement Algorithms
operating-system
virtual-memory
page-replacement
asked 2012-04-01T07:17:26.140
40
votes
3
answers
Memory mapped IO - how is it done?
operating-system
linux-kernel
kernel
device-driver
asked 2012-03-11T11:25:47.780
12
votes
9
answers
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
10
votes
2
answers
Memory segmentation in modern operating systems
operating-system
virtual-memory
memory-segmentation
asked 2012-02-26T23:45:08.713
56
votes
5
answers
Maximum number of processes in linux
linux
process
operating-system
asked 2012-02-20T13:19:09.127
10
votes
1
answers
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
8
votes
1
answers
Disable NSService context menu for multiple files selected in Finder
objective-c
macos
service
operating-system
finder
asked 2011-12-19T08:01:45.090
35
votes
4
answers
What's the differences between blocking with synchronous, nonblocking and asynchronous?
multithreading
io
operating-system
blocking
synchronous
asked 2011-12-07T14:25:00.770
14
votes
4
answers
Random time delay
c++
operating-system
signals
asked 2011-09-28T01:39:37.523
12
votes
2
answers
Python's os.listdir behaviour on Windows
python
windows
operating-system
filepath
asked 2011-08-31T15:01:15.567
47
votes
7
answers
What's the difference between io.open() and os.open() on Python?
python
module
io
operating-system
asked 2011-08-28T07:03:07.233
14
votes
3
answers
Changing bios code/flashing the bios
security
assembly
operating-system
bios
osdev
asked 2011-08-19T14:09:22.827
13
votes
7
answers
Using C#, how to get whether my machine is 64bit or 32bit?
c#
operating-system
32bit-64bit
asked 2011-08-11T19:48:30.870
78
votes
3
answers
python mkdir to make folder with subfolder?
python
operating-system
directory
mkdir
asked 2011-07-14T11:50:24.803
62
votes
4
answers
Is memory allocation a system call?
c++
c
operating-system
heap-memory
asked 2011-06-30T05:34:37.390
12
votes
4
answers
Why should I Minimize the use of system call in my code?
operating-system
system-calls
asked 2011-06-21T11:46:46.507
10
votes
3
answers
Differences (if any) among livelock and starvation in Operating systems
operating-system
asked 2011-06-20T13:21:41.230
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