Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
For example, a lock file might govern access to a set of related resources, such as several different files, directories, a group of disk partitions, or selected access to higher level protocols like servers or database connections. When using lock files, care must be taken to ensure that operations are atomic. To obtain a lock, the process ...
In the early days of computer viruses, malware, and spyware, the primary means of transmission and infection was the floppy disk. Today, USB flash drives perform the same data and software storage and transfer role as the floppy disk, often used to transfer files between computers which may be on different networks, in different offices, or ...
The file system has two different inode on-disk layouts. One is compact, and the other is extended. [1]Little-endian on-disk design [1]; 32-bit block addressing, which currently limits the total possible capacity of an EROFS filesystem to 16 TiB of 4 KiB block size.
WORM drives preceded the invention of the CD-R, DVD-R and BD-R.An example was the IBM 3363. [1] These drives typically used either a 5.1 in (13 cm) or a 12 in (30 cm) disc in a cartridge, with an ablative optical layer that could be written to only once, and were often used in places like libraries that needed to store large amounts of data.
In this solution of the readers/writers problem, the first reader must lock the resource (shared file) if such is available. Once the file is locked from writers, it may be used by many subsequent readers without having them to re-lock it again. Before entering the critical section, every new reader must go through the entry section. However ...
With Windows File Protection active, replacing or deleting a system file that has no file lock to prevent it getting overwritten causes Windows immediately and silently to restore the original copy of the file. The original version of the file is restored from a cached folder which contains backup copies of these files.
The first virus to exploit Sony BMG's stealth technology to make malicious files invisible to both the user and antivirus programs surfaced on November 10, 2005. [59] One day later, Yahoo! News announced that Sony BMG had suspended further distribution of the controversial technology. [citation needed]
In many anti-virus scanners, only a few layers of recursion are performed on archives to help prevent attacks that would cause a buffer overflow, an out-of-memory condition, or exceed an acceptable amount of program execution time. [citation needed] Zip bombs often rely on repetition of identical files to achieve their extreme compression ratios.