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
    • Semaphores
    • Monitors
    • Message passing
    • Software signals
    • Classic synch problems
      • Dining philosophers
      • Readers/Writers
• Parallel Systems and Threads
  • Concepts
  • Implementation
• Simple Operating System
  • system.h header file
  • Dispatcher() for scheduling
  • TimerInterruptHandler() for time-slices
  • semaphore.c for semaphore implementations
  • system-thread.h header file changes for threads
• Project 1 - Idle-Time Process Scheduling
  • Basic scheduling functionality
    • schedule()
    • goodness()
    • setscheduler()

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