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
    • Process control block
    • Context-switching
  • Scheduling
    • WinNT specifics
    • Linux specifics
  • Synchronization
    • Critical regions
    • Semaphores
    • Critical regions, conditional critical regions, monitors
    • Classic synch problems
  • IPC
    • Software interrupts
    • Pipes, message passing
• Parallel Systems and Threads
  • Basic concepts
• Simple Operating System
  • system.h header file
  • Dispatcher()
  • TimerInterruptHandler()
• Project 1 - The Java Shell
  • System Calls
    • exec()
    • try{} catch{} for handling exception errors
  • Implementation

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