Buffered I/O: as with C's Standard Library, IO Channels provide user-side buffering, which minimizes the number of system call invocations and ensures that I/O is performed in optimally sized units.

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This course provides an overview of System Programming for the Linux operating system, or software which is interfacing directly with the Linux Kernel and C library. The basic components of a Linux ...