Textbooks: Operating System Concepts, 9th edition, Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
Reference Books: Advanced Programming in Unix Environment, W.Richard Stevens,
Unix Network Programming, vol.2, W.Richard Stevens,
Design of Unix Operating System, Maurice Bach
Operating Systems: a design oriented approach, Charles Crowley
Date
PLANNED SCHEDULE
Sep 1
Introduction
Sep 4
Introduction
Sep 8
System call handling, Process state machine,
zombie and orphan processes
Sep 11
Process state machine, fork() and exec()
Sep 15
Wait(), process inheritance, process address
space, context switch
Sep 18
IPC intro, pipe(),
Sep 22
shared memory, FIFO()
Sep 25
Multithreading
Sep 29
Process synchronization
Oct 2
Analysing code with semaphores
Oct 6
Monitors and Transactional memory
Oct 9
Memory Mgmt. Basics – linking, loading
Oct 13
MINOR – 1
Oct 16
Segmentation, paging, binding
Oct 20
TLB, Hierarchical paging, inverted page tables,
hashed tables
ACTUAL SCHEDULE
Oct 23
Virtual memory management
Oct 27
frame allocation, thrashing and solutions
Oct 30
Intro. to FS
Nov 3
Disk allocation strategies
Nov 6
FAT, inode, Free space mgmt., Directory
implementation
Nov 10
MINOR – 2
Nov 13
MBR, VCB, VFS and mounting, Backup,
Consistency, Journaling systems
Nov 17
I/O subsystem: Programmed and memorymapped I/O, DMA, Block, char and N/W
devices, device driver structures and entry
points
Nov 20
Blocking and non-blocking I/O, Disk scheduling
algorithms
Nov 24
RAID, NAS, SAN concepts
Nov 27
Dec 1
MINOR – 3
Dec 4
Review class (if possible and needed)