Unix Interview Question and Answers

26. What is Kernel?
  Kernel is core part of unix o/s. It is a group of hundreds of system calls.
27. What are the different security features in Unix?
 
  • Password protection
  • File permissions
  • Encryption.
28. What does the swapping system do if it identifies the illegal page for swapping?
 
  • If the disk block descriptor does not contain any record of the faulted page, then this causes the attempted memory reference is invalid and the kernel sends a “Segmentation violation” signal to the offending process.
  • This happens when the swapping system identifies any invalid memory reference.
29. How do you find out the current directory you’re in?
  pwd
12345678

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