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Part One Eight Problems, each worth 4 points page 1 Problems 1-8: Short answer questions. Answer each question clearly, precisely, and refer to specific system calls when appropriate. Write your answer in the space provided. 1. What is kernel buffering? Name an advantage of kernel buffering, an me a disadvantage of kernel buffering. 2. What is a bit mask. Give two examples in Unix programming of uses of bit masks. 3. Almost all the information about a file is stored in an inode. Name one piece of information about a file that is not stored in the inode. What are the advantages of not storing this property in the inode? 4. Name three ways a Unix program can protect itself from being killed by a user pressing the Control-C key. 5. What is the role of the execvp() function and what does its return value represent? 6. What does the term built- ommand mean in the s ? Part One page 2 7. How can a process determine if any of its child processes are still running? 8. Why is the bind() system call useful for server programs? Part Two Five problems, each worth 6 points Problems 9-13: Compare and contrast. Each of these problems mentions two related concepts, system calls, or operations. For each pair, ex in briefly and clearly (a) what they have ommon, (b) when you would use the first item, and (c) when you would use the second item. 9. close()vs unlink() 10. sendto()vs write() 11. creat()vs fork() 12. raw modevs cooked mode 13. socket()vs pipe() Part Three Two questions, each worth 6 points page 3 ‘Enhancing Programs ’ Many of the projects for the c