Operating Systems 2

Students are acquainted with the parallel programming using POSIX threads, usage of synchronization primitives, virtual memory and file system.

The goal is to acquaint students with the principles and concepts that are used as a basis of modern operating systems kernels.

• Bic, L., Shaw, A.C.: Operating Systems Principles, Prentice-Hall, 2003, ISBN 0-13-026611-6
• Raymond, E.S.: The Art of Unix Programming
• Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution

• Bic, L.: The Logical Design of Operating Systems, Prentice-Hall, 1988, ISBN 0-13-540139-9
• Andrews, G.R.: Foundations of Multithreaded, Parallel, and Distributed Programming, Addison-Wesley, 2000, ISBN 0-201-35752-6
• Nutt, G.J.: Operating Systems: A Modern Perspective, Addison-Wesley, 2000, ISBN 0-201-61251-8
• Stevens, R.,W.: Advanced Programming in The Unix Environment, Addison-Wesley, 1992, ISBN 0-201-56317-7
• Vahalia, U.: Unix Internals: The New Frontiers, Prentice-Hall, 1996, ISBN 0-13-101908-2
• McKusick, M.K., Bostic, K., Karels, M.,J., Quaterman, J.S.: The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System, Addison-Wesley, 1996, ISBN 0-201-54979-4
• Schimmel, K.: UNIX Systems for Modern Architectures: Symmetric Multiprocessing and Caching for Kernel Programmers, Addison-Wesley, 1994, ISBN 0-201-63338-8
• Butenhof, D.R.: Programming with POSIX Threads, Addison-Wesley, 1997, ISBN 0-201-63392-2
• Tannenbaum, A.S.: The Modern Operating Systems, Prentice-Hall, 2001, ISBN 0-13-031358-0

Written mid-term exam (20 points) and submitted project in due date.