Information

This course provides an overview of the concept of operating systems. An operating system is the most important system software and manages all the resources of a computer. This course provides a detailed view of operating system functions such as process management, memory management, I/O management, file management and virtualisation. This course also provides information about concepts such as mutual exclusion, and concurrent processes. There is an emphasis on design, implementation, and evaluation of modern operating systems including mobile and real-time operating systems.

Course Outline: pdf

Slides

L1 - Introduction	pptx	pdf
L2 - Processes	pptx	pdf
L3 - Threads	pptx	pdf
L4 - Interprocess Communication	pptx	pdf
L5 - Sockets	pptx	pdf
L6 - Scheduling	pptx	pdf
L7 - Concurrency	pptx	pdf
L8 - Input/Output Devices	pptx	pdf
L9 - File Systems	pptx	pdf
Review	pptx	pdf

Samples

This section contains samples used to demonstrate various aspects of Operating Systems.

Download all: samples-v10.zip

• lecture-1 - sample code for lecture 1, showing the three fundamental aspects of an OS.

• Header files for process control:

  • sos - part of a "simple operating system"
    
  • xv6 - part of the Xv6 teaching OS
    
  • linux - part of the Linux kernel
    

• shell - a basic shell to demonstrate Unix process system calls.
  

• threads-procs - code introducing pthreads and illustrating difference between processes and threads.

• ipc - programs to demonstrate several types of interprocess communication.

• socket- basic TCP socket code.

• file-sys - files to illustrate basic file system stuff.
  

• hack - code to ascertain certain OS behaviors.