Ever wonder what makes a computer tick or how a UNIX® server does what it does? For those who wonder what happens when you push the power button on your computer, here's your inside look. This article discusses the different boot types, managing the IBM® AIX® bootlist, and the AIX boot sequence. After reading this article, you should have a better understanding of what exactly is happening when your server starts.
Traditionally, Unix/Linux/POSIX filenames can be almost any sequence of bytes, and their meaning is unassigned. The only real rules are that "/" is always the directory separator, and that filenames can't contain byte 0 (because this is the terminator). Although this is flexible, this creates many unnecessary problems. In particular, this lack of limitations makes it unnecessarily difficult to write correct programs (enabling many security flaws), makes it impossible to consistently and accurately display filenames, causes portability problems, and confuses users. more ....
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