John David N. Dionisio, PhD

`CMSI 387` Operating Systems Spring 2012

Assignments

Assignment 0202: 1c, 1e, 1f, 1g, 2a, 2b, 2c, 2d, 2f, 4e, 4f
Assignment 0207: 1a, 1b, 3a, 3b, 3c
Assignment 0308: 1a, 1b, 2e, 3a, 3b, 3c, 4a, 4b, 4c, 4d, 4e, 4f
- For your test program, the system call sample code may be of assistance.
Assignment 0320: 1c, 2e, 3c, 3d, 4a, 4b, 4c, 4d, 4e, 4f
- The one-time fork-then-exec sample code may be used as a starting point for this one.
Assignment 0405: 1c, 1d, 3e, 4a, 4b, 4c, 4d, 4e, 4f
- The bounded buffer sample code may be used as a starting point for this one.
Assignment 0424a: 1e, 3f, 4a, 4b, 4c, 4d, 4e, 4f
- Starter files for address translation: addressTranslation.h, addressTranslation.c, addressTranslationTest.c
- Starter files for page replacement: pageReplacement.h, pageReplacement.c, pageReplacementTest.c
Assignment 0424b: 1f, 1g, 2e, 2g, 4d, 4e, 4f

Handouts

0112: Operating System Interaction via bash
0124: I/O Redirection on the Command Line
0131: I/O Agility at the Command Line
0207: Unix File System Commands,
0207: Operating Systems Overview, Operating System Structures
0216: System call invocation sample code
0223: Processes
- Command-line argument sample code
- One-time fork-then-exec sample code
0308: Threads
- Sum-of-sums using POSIX threads
- Sum-of-sums using Java threads
0313: CPU Scheduling
0315: Process Synchronization
0329: Deadlocks
0403: Main Memory
0410: Virtual Memory
0419: File Systems: Interface, File Systems: Implementation, ext2 File System Walkthrough

Related External Links

These links take you to web sites beyond this server. The sites are in no particular order or bias, just “as they came to mind.”

Companion Web site for the Silberschatz/Galvin/Gagne text
Operating system web sites
- Linux Online home page
- The Linux Kernel Archives — home base for Linux kernel source code
  - Google search for Kernel Build HOWTO documents
- Some popular Linux distributions:
  - Debian GNU/Linux
  - Ubuntu
  - Red Hat
  - And many more — don’t hesitate to scan the Web for them...
- Some prominent Linux derivatives by Google:
  - You might have heard of this one (and are likely using it, too): Android
  - Chromium OS, the open source version of Google’s Chrome OS
- Virtual machines:
  - VirtualBox: Free, open source, functional
  - User Mode Linux allows you to run a virtual Linux machine in a physical Linux box
    - Antoine Martin’s Virtualization Tools site consisting of UML file systems and kernel images
- Microsoft Developer Network home page: visit the Developer Centers link for Windows operating system sites
- Mac OS X and iOS developer home pages
  - Apple’s Darwin/Mac OS X Kernel Programming Guide
Process management links
- The E. W. Dijkstra Archive — Full PDF scans of Dijkstra’s work, including the seminal Cooperating Sequential Processes and Een algorithme ter voorkoming van de dodelijke omarming (An algorithm to prevent the deadly embrace [his original term for “deadlock”])
- Online version of C. A. R. Hoare’s seminal monitors paper, “Monitors: An Operating System Structuring Concept”
Memory management links
- Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual Volume 1: Basic Architecture: This volume holds an overview of Intel memory management
- Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual Volume 3A: System Programming Guide, Part 1: This volume holds the memory management details of the Intel architecture
- Online developer documentation for Memory Management in Mac OS X
- PDF version of Mel Gorman’s Understanding the Linux Virtual Memory Manager (8.3M)
Eric S. Raymond’s The Art of Unix Programming: a unique philosophical/cultural/technical perspective
The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) home page: never get lost in (FHS-compliant) Linux machines again
The Ars Technica operating system reviews don’t pull any technological punches
Software Carpentry: A very handy collection of practical “tech nuggets”
Wikipedia: A good starting point for virtually any concept lookup
- Wikipedia search for operating systems
A link to the “classic” article on Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit by Aleph One

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