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  2. Working directory - Wikipedia

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    In the C language, the POSIX function chdir() effects the system call which changes the working directory. [11] Its argument is a text string with a path to the new directory, either absolute or relative to the old one. Where available, it can be called by a process to set its working directory. There are similar functions in other languages.

  3. Path (computing) - Wikipedia

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    A path (or filepath, file path, pathname, or similar) is a string of characters used to uniquely identify a location in a directory structure. It is composed by following the directory tree hierarchy in which components, separated by a delimiting character, represent each directory.

  4. Symbolic link - Wikipedia

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    ln -s target_path link_path target_path is the relative or absolute path to which the symbolic link should point. Usually the target will exist, although symbolic links may be created to non-existent targets. link_path is the path of the symbolic link. After creating the symbolic link, some operations can be used to treat it as an alias for the ...

  5. NTFS links - Wikipedia

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    Symbolic links are reparse points which operate similarly to Junction Points, or symbolic links in Unix or Linux, and accept relative paths and paths to files as well as directories. Support for directory and UNC paths were added in NTFS 3.1. NTFS volume mount points; All NTFS links are intended to be transparent to applications.

  6. Pointer (computer programming) - Wikipedia

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    These pointers can either be absolute (the actual physical address or a virtual address in virtual memory) or relative (an offset from an absolute start address ("base") that typically uses fewer bits than a full address, but will usually require one additional arithmetic operation to resolve).

  7. Branch predictor - Wikipedia

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    In order to reduce the prediction latency, Jimenez proposed in 2003 the fast-path neural predictor, where the perceptron predictor chooses its weights according to the current branch's path, rather than according to the branch's PC. Many other researchers developed this concept (A. Seznec, M. Monchiero, D. Tarjan & K. Skadron, V. Desmet, Akkary ...

  8. Uniform Resource Identifier - Wikipedia

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    It is composed by zero or more path segments that do not refer to an existing physical resource name (e.g. a file, an internal module program or an executable program) but to a logical part (e.g. a command or a qualifier part) that has to be passed separately to the first part of the path that identifies an executable module or program managed ...

  9. XPath 2.0 - Wikipedia

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    The location paths of XPath 1.0 are referred to in XPath 2.0 as path expressions. Informally, a path expression is a sequence of steps separated by the " / " operator, for example a/b/c (which is short for child::a/child::b/child::c ).