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
    • States (ready, running, blocked) 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 (brief)
    • Readers/Writers (brief)
• Simple Operating System
  • system.h header file
  • Dispatcher() for scheduling
  • TimerInterruptHandler() for time-slices
• Parallel Systems and Threads
  • Concepts
  • Implementation
    • use-proc-table.c() for 2 processor support
• Project 1 - The Mini Shell
  • parsing command line
  • background processes
  • "jobs" command
  • System Calls
    • fork()
    • exec()
    • nice()
    • chdir()
    • wait()
    • getrusage()
  • Implementation

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