Helpful perspective about application programming #86
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This tidbit (or a tidbit like it) might alleviate the need for accomplishing a full course on Operating Systems and authoring C code before delving into a C example, or writing C code on top of an Operating System.
Basically the JVM and other languages provide abstractions and template examples over these POSIX primitives, but this section could potentially serve as a minimal primer on the needed resources to explore further.
I release this under the terms of the CLA.