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What is the shortest definition of os?

Asked by: Interview Candidate | Asked on: Aug 30th, 2006
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Can any one of you help me out to get the answers of following questions :

1. How will u list the contents of parent directory from the current directory.
2. What are the default system wide permissions for a file and directory.
3.What is the default umask value.
4.A user is not able to change the permission , What can it happen.
5. What's the difference between ls -F , ls -p
6. If a file permission are 000, can the superuser still read and write to that file.
7. What's the command to remove the files without write permission.
8. How will u make sure that no one can see the files which u had created.
9. How will u change the permissions of a directory recursively.

  
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Ashok Kumar R

Answered On : Sep 19th, 2006

OS is an System(hardware&software) Manager.

  
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Alon Moscovitz

Answered On : Nov 2nd, 2006

The shortest definition I can think of is "The software infrastructure".

  
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ritu

Answered On : Nov 12th, 2006

It's the system that is always on till our computer is on.

  
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shijine

Answered On : Nov 28th, 2006

It's an interface between user and the computer hardware.

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ramesh

Answered On : Dec 6th, 2006

OS is like a traffic policeman on duty.It keeps track of the resources.It decides the policy to allocate resources.It allocates the resources.It de-allocate the resources.

  
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OS is a set of programs which

controls hardware.

acts as platform for applications

interacts with user.

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kausik jana

Answered On : Jan 24th, 2007

Operating system is nothing but it is interfaced between hardware & software.

  
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ravi

Answered On : Mar 4th, 2007

OS is a Interface between a user and the hardware of a computer

  
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sangeetha26

Answered On : May 17th, 2010

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It acts as an interface between the user and the hardware.

  
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OS is an interface between user and the system.

  
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Sandeep K Achar

Answered On : Jul 19th, 2011

It's an user interface for the users to interact with the computer...

  
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Milind

Answered On : Aug 18th, 2011

Operating System is the program to interface between user and computer.

  
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deepak

Answered On : Aug 22nd, 2011

You can say.........Operating System is an interface between user and hardware

  
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Rohit

Answered On : Aug 26th, 2011

It is a software or a set of programs that make an interface between user and hardware.

  
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puneet rana

Answered On : Aug 30th, 2011

Communicator

  
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Marks

Answered On : Feb 28th, 2012

OS is ..
1.Resource Manager
2.Interface between Hardware and Software.

  
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vivek tomar

Answered On : Mar 10th, 2012

1)data Management. (file ,folder,drive,also contain data.)
2)communicator b/w software and hardware.
3)provide user Interface.
4)provide working environment.

  
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anon

Answered On : May 3rd, 2012

Operating System;
System which controls the operations of the hardware. Serves as an intermediary between the application layer and the hardware it interfaces with.

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Lingapandi

Answered On : Jun 4th, 2012

Operating system is a system software.

  
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