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Consider the following invocation of the fstatcheck program from Problem 10.8:...

Consider the following invocation of the fstatcheck program from Problem 10.8:

You might expect that this invocation of fstatcheck would fetch and display metadata for file foo.txt. However, when we run it on our system, it fails with a “bad file descriptor.” Given this behavior, fill in the pseudo-code that the shell must be executing between the fork and execve calls:

REF PRB:

Write a version of the statcheck program in Figure 10.10, called fstatcheck, that takes a descriptor number on the command line rather than a file name.

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