More Primitives

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More Primitives

As suggested by the lists of operations on files and directories in Sections 3.1.2 and 3.1.3, there are lots of opportunities for providing additional primitives (a rename, a copy, a ...). I have decided to do none of these, since most of them can (more or less elegantly) be written using the other (file) primitives.

**Figure 5.7:** Synchronization
$\begin{figure} {\scriptsize\begin{verbatim}/* psync.c - PeStO sample applicati... ...'Client time set to %s",ctime(&t)); return 0; } }\end{verbatim}} \end{figure}$

**Figure 5.8:** Example use of status primitives
$\begin{figure} {\scriptsize\begin{verbatim}/* pstatus.c - PeStO sample applica... ...c>1;) filestatus(argv[--argc]);printf("\n"); }\end{verbatim}} \end{figure}$

michael@garfield.dk
2000-10-13