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
    • System Calls
• Processes
  • Implementation
  • Scheduling
  • Synchronization and IPC
    • Critical regions
    • Semaphores
    • Critical regions, conditional critical regions, monitors
    • Classic synch problems
    • Pipes, message passing, software signals
• Simple Operating System
  • Dispatcher()
  • TimerInterruptHandler()
  • Modifications to make parallel
• Project 1 - The Dinky Shell
  • System Calls
    • fork()
    • exec()
    • nice()
    • getrusage()
  • Implementation
• Project 2 - Othello
  • System Calls
    • semcreate(), semattach()
    • shmcreate(), shmattach()
  • Implementation

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