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Contents

 
• Copyright notice
• Process Description and Control - I
  • The concept of process
  • Process states
• Process Description and Control - II
  • Process control blocks
  • Process control and system execution modes
    • Privileged execution modes
    • Process creation and execution
  • Process control: architectural design issues
    • Non-process kernel
    • Kernel executed within a process
• Process Description and Control - III
  • Threads
  • Process creation in UNIX
• Process Description and Control - IV
  • Block-oriented I/O in UNIX
    • File creation
    • Opening files
    • Moving inside a file
    • Reading & Writing
    • Closing files
  • Execution of programs inside processes
    • Program environment
    • Program execution
  • File descriptor manipulation
  • Pipes
• Synopsis on concurrency
  • Semaphores
    • Semaphores in System V UNIX
  • Messages
  • Deadlocks
• Memory management - 1
  • Relocation, relocation, relocation...
    • Relocation
• Scheduling - I
  • Types of scheduling - Long and medium term scheduling
  • Short term scheduling
  • Alternative scheduling methods
    • First come, first served (FCFS)
    • Round robin (RR)
    • Shortest process next (SPN)
    • Shortest remaining time next (SRTN)
  • CPU scheduling in UNIX
    • Scheduling in the 4.2BSD Unix OS
    • Priority classes in System V R4
• File Management - I
  • Some terminology
  • File management systems
    • FMS Architecture
• File Management - II
  • Basic file organization techniques
    • Pile
    • Sequential
    • Indexed sequential
    • Indexed
    • Hashed
  • Directories
• File Management - III
• Networking - I
• Networking - II
  • Client-server applications
  • Addressing
  • Threading models
    • Single thread, single client
    • Single thread, multiple clients with selection
    • One thread per client
    • Worker threads