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<p>own <a href="page.php?w=Device_driver">drivers</a> to access the files in <a href="page.php?w=kernel_mode">kernel mode</a>.</p>

<p><big> In Unix-like systems </big></p>
<p><a href="page.php?w=Unix-like">Unix-like</a> operating systems (including <a href="page.php?w=Linux">Linux</a> and Apple's <a href="page.php?w=macOS">macOS</a>) do not normally automatically lock open files. Several kinds of file-locking mechanisms are available in different flavors of Unix, and many operating systems support more than one kind for compatibility. The most common mechanism</p><p>
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