CS3013 Operating Systems A'06

Prof. Craig Wills

Introductory Course Materials

Course Syllabus.
Homework Grading Policy.

Course Assistance/Office Hours

CS3013-staff mailing list to Professor and Teaching Assistants
Prof. Wills: FL-236, Mon 1:00--3:00pm, Thu 9:00--10:00am
Mingzhe Li: FL-A22, Tue 4:00--6:00pm, Fri 12:00--1:00pm

TA office hours will be held in the Fossil Lab, FL B-17 when Fossil Lab projects are assigned.

Code Examples

Code examples given in class can be found here or in the directory /cs/cs3013/public/example on the CCC machines. Code libraries and related information for use with projects can found in the directory /cs/cs3013/public/lib.

myfork.C.
myexec.C.
prodcons.C.
mutexthr.C.
pcthreads.C.
signal.C.
fileio.C.
pipe.C.
mmapexample.C.

Assignments

Project 1.
Project 2.
Project 3.
Project 4.
Project 5.

Course Notes

Course notes will generally be available soon after the class in which they are used.

Introduction.
Processes.
Process Management.
Process Scheduling.
Process Coordination.
Additional Process Coordination.
Classic IPC Problems.
Threads.
Unix IPC.
Unix Sockets.
Memory Management.
Virtual Memory with Paging.
Page Replacement.
Input/Output Devices.
Disk Devices.
Terminal Devices.
Clock Devices.
Deadlock.

Exams

Copies of old exams will be made available as exam time approaches in the course.