CS3013 Mid-Term Topic Outline

Here is an outline of the topics that were covered for the Mid-Term:

• Introduction
  • History
  • Structure
  • Concepts
    • Processes
    • Shells
    • Files
    • Memory Management
    • System Calls
• Processes
  • Implementation
    • Process control block
    • Context-switching
    • States (ready, running, blocked/waiting) and transitions
    • Creation
      • fork()
      • exec()
• Scheduling
  • FCFS, SJF, RR, Prio, Multi-level feedback queue ...
  • WinNT specifics (a bit)
  • Linux specifics (a bit)
• Synchronization
  • Critical sections
  • Shared-memory solutions
  • Hardware solutions
  • Semaphores
  • Classic synch problems
    • Dining philosophers
    • Readers/Writers
• Simple Operating System
  • system.h header file
  • Dispatcher() for scheduling
• Parallel Systems and Threads
  • Basic Concepts
• Project 1 - Switching Contexts
  • getrusage()
  • sys_getrusage()
  • counting context switches
  • voluntary vs. involuntary context switches

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