Operating Systems (CSL 3030)

Contents

Overview of Operating Systems: Types of Operating Systems, System calls and OS structure. (4 Lectures)

Processes Management: Process, Threads, CPU scheduling. (6 Lectures)

Process Coordination: Mutual exclusion, Mutex implementation, Semaphores, Monitors and condition variables, Deadlocks. (10 Lectures)

Memory Management: Swapping, Paging, Segmentation, Virtual memory, Demand paging, Page Replacement algorithms. (8 Lectures)

Storage Management: I/O devices and drivers, Disks and file Systems, File layout and directories, File system performance, File system reliability. (8 Lectures)

Protection and Security: System protection, System security. (6 Lectures)

Laboratory

1. Designing a shell in Linux

2. Multithreaded programming using pthread

3. Solving the Sleeping-Barber problem

4. Modification of scheduling algorithm in Linux

5. Solving the Producer-Consumer problem over a network

6. Finding text, data, and stack segments of a process in Linux

7. Implementation of page replacement algorithms

8. Changing file attributes in Linux

9. Implementing an encrypted file system in Linux

10. Implementing symbolic links in Linux