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• 1998 term messages
  • Preparation for the final exam - list of topics covered
  • Notes on VM
  • A4 - handing in
  • A4 - Sockets, reading in chunks
  • A4: Return status of 'Make'
  • A4 - Deleting application directory - second take
  • A4 - Re: Conflicts in spec
  • Re: A4 - select(2) / fdopen(3)
  • A4: socket closing
  • A4 - select(2): what's the point?
  • Re: Sockets on Solaris
  • IMPORTANT: Ejecting your Zip disk
  • Working with Zip disks
  • Preparing ZIP disk images
  • A4 Re: Stuff Missing
  • A4 Loading my system...?
  • A4 - Extending the protocols
  • A4 - Network coding examples and such
  • A4 - Linux's God?
  • A4 - Versions of Linux kernel
  • A4 - Yikes, a shell on steroids?
  • Re: Creating directories
  • A4 - root work time
  • A4 setitimer and getitimer question
  • A4 - portability?
  • A4: setting the priority of a process
  • A4: client-server, home-lab
  • Re: SysV IPC question
  • Union semun disagrees on Suns and Linux?
  • Return value of 'shmat()'
  • A3 - A dying horse
  • A3 - Ready-set-go
  • Things to look for in A3
  • Signals from the keyboard
  • A3 physics yet again
  • Steven's semaphore creation
  • Sleeping for less than a sec
  • A3 - seq
  • Memories of Pong
  • Protection of shared memory segment
  • Exegesis of kernel source code
  • Linux kernel source available
  • Shared memory
  • A3 - hardcopies, typos, partners, deadline
  • A2 - Pipes and Temp files
  • A2 - points of no return
  • A2 - another problem with drand48
  • Alumnus' Hackerspeak
  • A2 - Bit operations and such
  • A2 - Signed / unsigned clarifications (fwd)
  • A2 - oh Pipeo, Pipeo, wherefore art thou Pipeo?
  • A2 - Example fork/piping program, web page, bit shifting, etc
  • A2 - can we use a shell?
  • A2 - the mysterious "-h" option
  • A2 - random numbers, bits and such
  • A2 - more typos
  • Notes on A2
  • GCC: -rdynamic option
  • A1 - unresolved references
  • Pointers to functions
  • A1 - report content
  • Faulty Segmentations
  • Platform for Asgn1
  • A1 - Making something explicitly clear
  • A1 - Routines called by the switcher.
  • A1 - almost threads
  • A1: ERRATA, DLL, FAQ FAQ FAQ
  • Tutorial rescheduled
• 1997 term messages
  • Assig 4 - accept(2) interrupted by SIGCHLD
  • Assig 4 - Reminder: reap thy children
  • TCP/IP Examples
  • Assig. 4 - HELO command
  • Assig. 4 - ABRT command (one delete too many)
  • Assig. 4 - Verbose text in server responses
  • Sockets bound, stuck and such
  • Assig 4 - Key exchange
  • Assig 4 woes
  • Re: Web Page
  • Sample semaphore usage in Perl
  • Assig 3 - Collisions: who hit whom?
  • Compiling problems
  • Spirals of Fire
  • Makefiles
  • To goto or not to goto
  • rawtorle and getx11 for viewing Shtron
  • gcc and ANSI
  • About initializing semaphores
  • 8 deadly sins
  • File descriptors across fork(2)/exec(2)
  • Forking, duping, piping, waiting example
  • Assig2: Closing pipes...
  • Hints derived from assignment 1
  • Assig 2: Buggy plain/ciph pair
  • Assig 2: rotation on non-encrypted chars
  • Debugging your children
  • Assig. 2 - Maximum pipe capacity
  • Assig. 2 - One more typo...
  • Assig. 2 FAQ
  • Enhanced opsys_submit script for your convenience
  • Borland C (and bad email setups)
  • Quicksorting avec qsort(3)
  • Assig. 1 - NOP, pipeline stalls, writebacks, ...
  • Assig 1. Text interpretation
  • Assig 1. To ASCII or not to ASCII...
  • Pointer allocation, a review
  • Additional Instructions (Assig. 1)
  • Hop Hop...Getopt
  • Automatic assignment submission program
• 1996 term messages
  • Blocking reads from sockets - line buffering
  • Assig. 5 - UNIX STREAM sockets
  • Yet again getpeername(2)
  • IP addresses-names-quads blues
  • strtok(3) blues
  • getpeername(2)
  • IPC keys and permissions
  • Structuring header files
  • Assig. 4 - locks and zombies
  • Assig. 4 - Text clarification
  • Assig. 4 - Exchange rates
  • Standard deviation blues
  • Cleaning up IPCs
  • Assig. 3 - Three bids only
  • Assig. 3 - Strategy and greed
  • Assig. 3 - ``All in the same bag'' is NOT good design
  • Assig. 3 - Referee?
  • Assig. 3 - IPC by signals
  • Assig. 3 - Makefiles
  • Assig. 3 - IPC
  • Assig. 3 - Winners
  • Assig 3 - Bidding
  • Assig 3 - Text clarification
  • Slides, hardcopies of exam and assignment-3 handouts
  • Assig 3 - Electronic submisison and team work
  • Assignment 2 FAQ
  • Assig. 1 FAQ
  • YTTA: Yet The Textbook Again
• 1995 term messages
  • Flip-Flop Server for assign. #5: a fairytale
  • Assign. #5 client: interactive melancholy blues
  • On jumping between directories
  • On server state and HELP for assignment 5
  • On Billy the Sig, the fastest killer in the West
  • On server process disposal in assignment 4
  • On the communication protocol for assignment 4
  • On magic keys and IPC sorcery