DMA (Direct Memory Access)
May 28,93DMA (Direct memory access) is an alternative method of communication to I/O ports that permits the device to transfer data …
Read MoreI/O ports
May 28,93I/O (Input/Output) ports (also referred to as I/O addresses) are unique locations in memory reserved for communications between the CPU and …
Read MoreIRQ (Interrupt Request)
May 28,93An interrupt request (IRQ) is a hardware signal sent to the processor instructing it to suspend its current activity and …
Read Moreproc filesystem (procfs)
May 28,93The /proc directory in on a Linux system contains information about system resources. It is a virtual filesystem that is created dynamically by Linux …
Read MoreChange file attributes
May 28,93You can use the chattr command to change file attributes in Linux. You can secure your files by modifying their …
Read MoreSet the default permissions for newly created files
May 28,93By default, when you create a file as a regular user, it’s given the permissions of rw-rw-r–. You can use the …
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