Operating Systems

Ehud Gudes

Dept. of Computer Science

Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva

Office 303, Telephone: 08-6461626,  email: ehud@cs.bgu.ac.il

Syllabus
    1.      Introduction - History; Concepts; Structure

    2.      Process Management - Processes; Threads; Scheduling;  implementation of Processes

    3.      Process Synchronization - Synchronization primitives and their equivalence ;  Deadlocks;
             ( 1st  Assignment);

    4.      File Systems - Implementation; Directory and space management;  Unix file system;
             Distributed file systems (NFS); (2nd  Assignment)

    5.      Memory Management - Swapping; Virtual memory; Segmentation

    6.      Security - General policies and mechanisms;  examples of common problems; protection models;
            Authentication

    7.    Input/Output - Interrupts; Drivers; Disks; Software architecture

    8.    Distributed systems

    9.     Case-studies - Unix, Windows-NT
 
 

    Textbooks in OS:

    1.  A. Tanenbaum: Modern Operating Systems, Prentice-Hall, 2nd edition, 2001 (the main text book)

    2.    A. Silbetschatz et. al.: Operating System Concepts (6th ed.), Addison Wesley, 2001 (highly recommended)

    3.    G. Nutt: Operating Systems (a modern perspective)  (2nd ed.), Addison Wesley, 1999.

    4.  W. Stallings: Operating Systems (3rd ed.), Prentice-Hall, 1998.

     Assignments:

    There will be two programming assignments:

            ·          Multi-thread computation  (15%)

            ·          Distributed file-system simulator (10%)

            ·          1-2  (no credit)  theoretical  assignments will be required

    Marking:

    Final mark =  25% Assignments  + 15% MidTerm + 60% final exam.

    (A passing mark in the final exam  is compulsory)