Ceng 328 Operating Systems
Operating systems course covers
introductory issues in modern operating systems. Main emphasis is on single
processor multitask systems. The main issues including processes and threads,
inter-process communication and race conditions, memory management, file
systems, I/O management and deadlocks are considered. All issues are practiced
on UNIX/linux and Windows operating systems.
Course
outline
1.
Introduction
·
Computer systems,
·
Operating system as a resource manager,
·
History of the Operating systems,
·
introduction to multiprogramming
2.
Process Management
·
Process Model
·
Race conditions
·
Inter-process communication
1.
Mutex
2.
Semaphores
3.
Monitors
·
Process
Scheduling
3.
Memory Management
·
Swapping
·
Segmentation
·
Paging
·
Virtual Memory
·
Design issues for paging systems
4.
File Systems
·
File system implementation issues
·
Directories
·
Case Studies
1.
UNIX
2.
MS-DOS
3.
Windows
5.
Input/Output Management
6.
Deadlocks
Text book: Modern Operating Systems, A. Tanenbaum,
2nd Edition, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0-13-031358-0
Announcements:
Linux Shell Commands (Lab work + exercises)
Midterm exam: July 16, 2008 at
14:40