Question: 1. How could you modify 3000test.c so it can report on whether two device files are equal without actually accessing the underlying devices? Specify the

1. How could you modify 3000test.c so it can report on whether two device files are equal without actually accessing the underlying devices? Specify the changes you would make to 3000test.c rather than doing this from scratch.

/* 3000test.c */ 
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 6 
 7 #include  
 8 #include  
 9 #include  
10 #include  
11 #include  
12 #include  
13 #include  
14 #include  
15 #include  
16 
17 void report_error(char *error) 
18 { 
19 fprintf(stderr, "Error: %s ", error); 
20 
21 exit(-1); 
22 } 
23 
24 int main(int argc, char *argv[]) 
25 { 
26 struct stat statbuf; 
27 char *fn; 
28 int fd; 
29 size_t len, i, count; 
30 
31 char *data; 
32 
33 if (argc < 2) { 
34 if (argc < 1) { 
35 report_error("no command line"); 
36 fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s  ", argv[0]); 
37 } else { 
38 report_error("Not enough arguments"); 
39 fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s  ", argv[0]); 
40 } 
41 } 
42 
43 fn = argv[1]; 
44 
45 if (stat(fn, &statbuf)) { 
46 report_error(strerror(errno)); 
47 } 
48 
49 len = statbuf.st_size; 
50 printf("File %s:  ", fn); 
51 printf(" inode %ld ", statbuf.st_ino); 
52 printf(" length %ld ", len); 
53 
54 if (S_ISREG(statbuf.st_mode)) { 
55 fd = open(fn, O_RDONLY); 
56 if (fd == -1) { 
57 report_error(strerror(errno)); 
58 } 
59 data = (char *) mmap(NULL, len, 
60 PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0); 
61 if (data == MAP_FAILED) { 
62 report_error(strerror(errno)); 
63 } 
64 
65 count = 0; 
66 for (i=0; i 
67 if (data[i] == 'a') { 
68 count++; 
69 } 
70 } 
71 
72 printf(" a count %ld ", count); 
73 
74 if (munmap(data, len) == -1) { 
75 report_error(strerror(errno)); 
76 } 
77 close(fd); 
78 } 
79 
80 return 0; 
81 } 

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