Operating Systems Spring 2008

OpSys Spring 2008

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Office Hours
Dave Hollinger hollingd@cs.rpi.edu Mon, Thu 1-3PM Amos Eaton 107 (518) 428-0026	Kevin Barlett barlek@rpi.edu Mon 4-5PM, Thu 10-11AM Amos Eaton 217	Saeed Salem salems@cs.rpi.edu Mon, Thu 12-1PM Amos Eaton 217

Test Dates

Feb 22nd, March 25th and April 29th

Test 3 is Tue, April 29th in class!

Test #3 Topics
Old Tests:
Spring 2005
Fall 2006
You also need to look at old test2s for deadlock questions!

Test 2 is Tue, March 25th in class!

Sample Answers

Test #2 Topics
Old Tests: (ignore anything other than Sys Programing and Memory)
Spring 2006
Fall 2006

Test 1 is Feb 22nd in class

Sample Answers

Test #1 Topics
Old Tests:
Spring 2006
Fall 2006
Fall 2007

Interactive Linux Kernal Map

HW	Due Date	Assignment	FAQ
1	2/3 by 11:59PM	C Programming, readline and regex	HW1 FAQ
2	2/19 by 11:59PM	Searching directories, threads and running programs.	HW2 FAQ
3	3/18 by 11:59PM	Da Shell	HW3 FAQ
4	4/4 by 11:59PM	File System	HW4 FAQ
5	4/28 by 11:59PM	Command Line HTTP Client	HW5 FAQ

Late Policy

Topic	Adobe PDF	Links
Course Introduction	CourseIntro.pdf
Chapter 1: Introduction	Chapter1.pdf	Computer History
Crash Course on Using Unix (review)	unixcc.pdf	Unix FAQ Unix Progamming FAQ Unix Tutorials (ssh client)
Sample Unix Session	unixsession.pdf	Logging in to CS Machines from Windows (a CompOrg Lab)
C Programming for C++ Programmers (review)	cprogcc.pdf
Chapter 2: Processes and Threads	Chapter2.pdf	fork() sample code Windows sample code Unix exec sample code Unix stat() sample code
Using Make	Make.pdf	gnu make manual An Introduction to the UNIX Make Utility (mtsu.edu)
Threads Programming	ThreadsProg.pdf	Simple threads code More threads samples (mutex, cond signals)
Chapter 3: Memory Management	Chapter3.pdf
Writing a Shell	shell.pdf	Sample Code (pipes, I/O redirection)
Chapter 4: Filesystems	Chapter4.pdf	FAT (wikipedia) The Design and Implementation of a Log-Structured File System
I/O and Device Drivers	Chapter5.pdf	Linux Device Drivers (Safari)
Chapter 6: Deadlock	Chapter6.pdf
Networking Background	network.pdf	OSI Reference Model (webopedia) RFC 791: IP (ietf.org) RFC 793: TCP (ietf.org) TFC 768: UDP (ietf.org)
Fifo, and TCP/IP Sockets programming	fifosock.pdf	Sample Code
HTTP	http.pdf
Chapter 8 - Multiple Processor Systems	Chapter8.pdf
Cryptography	crypt.pdf
Chapter 9 - Security	Chapter9.pdf

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