BITLug presents 'File Handling Fundas' Date : 9th March, 2004 Time : 11:00 am Venue: BIT Seminar Hall, Bangalore Institute of Technology Speakers: Pavan TC, Hewlett Packard (pavan.t-c@xxxxxx) Peeyush Prasad, Raman Research Institute (peeyush@xxxxxxxxxx) Abstract : BITLug is BIT's first Linux Users group, and has already organised two talks last year as part of its regular activities. We start off this year with a collection of talks which we call 'The OS Series' The aim of this series is to familiarise the audience of the various programming facilities offered by any modern OS. This is demonstrated by building a sample application. The topics to be covered include : File handling Memory Management Process management IPC For the first talk, we concentrate on the C API for file handling, the various system calls available on a typical Linux system and also some hardware details of Hard disks, the most common permanent storage solution as of today. For more details, log on to www.rri.res.in/~peeyush/bitlug.html, or mail the speakers. -- P