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Book Synopsis
This book is designed for a one-semester operating-systems course for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students. Prerequisites for the course generally include an introductory course on computer architecture and an advanced programming course.

The goal of this book is to bring together and explain current practice in operating systems. This includes much of what is traditionally covered in operating-system textbooks: concurrency, scheduling, linking and loading, storage management (both real and virtual), file systems, and security. However, the book also covers issues that come up every day in operating-systems design and implementation but are not often taught in undergraduate courses. For example, the text includes:

  • Deferred work, which includes deferred and asynchronous procedure calls in Windows, tasklets in Linux, and interrupt threads in Solaris.
  • The intricacies of thread switching, on both uniprocessor and multiprocessor sys

    Table of Contents
    1 Introduction.

    1.1 Operating Systems.

    1.2 A Brief History of Operating Systems.

    1.3 A Simple OS.

    1.4 Beyond a Simple OS.

    1.5 Conclusions.

    1.6 Exercises.

    1.7 References.

    2 Multithreaded Programming.

    2.1 Why Threads?

    2.2 Programming with Threads.

    2.3 Conclusions.

    2.4 Exercises.

    2.5 References.

    3 Basic Concepts.

    3.1 Context Switching.

    3.2 Input/Output Architectures.

    3.3 Dynamic Storage Allocation.

    3.4 Linking and Loading.

    3.5 Booting.

    3.6 Conclusions.

    3.7 Exercises.

    3.8 References.

    4 Operating-System Design.

    4.1 A Simple System.

    4.2 Rethinking Operating-System Structure.

    4.3 Conclusions.

    4.4 Exercises.

    4.5 References.

    5 Processor Management.

    5.1 Threads Implementations.

    5.2 Interrupts.

    5.3 Scheduling.

    5.4 Conclusions.

    5.5 Exercises.

    5.6 References.

    6 File Systems.

    6.1 The Basics of File Systems.

    6.2 Crash Resiliency.

    6.3 Directories and Naming.

    6.4 Multiple Disks.

    6.5 Flash Memory.

    6.6 Case Studies.

    6.7 Conclusions.

    6.8 Exercises.

    6.9 References.

    7 Memory Management.

    7.1 Memory Management in the Early Days.

    7.2 Hardware Support for Virtual Memory.

    7.3 Operating-System Issues.

    7.4 Conclusions.

    7.5 Exercises.

    7.6 References.

    8 Security.

    8.1 Security Goals.

    8.2 Security Architectures.

    8.3 Conclusions.

    8.4 Exercises.

    8.5 References.

    9 Introduction to Networking.

    9.1 Network Basics.

    9.2 Remote Procedure Call Protocols.

    9.3 Conclusions.

    9.4 Exercises.

    9.5 References.

    10 Distributed File Systems.

    10.1 The Basics.

    10.2 NFS Version 2.

    10.3 Common Internet File System (CIFS).

    10.4 DFS.

    10.5 NFS Version 4.

    10.6 Conclusions.

    10.7 Exercises.

    10.8 References.

    Appendix URL Index.

    Glossary.

    Index.

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    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
    Publication Date: 03/12/2010
    ISBN13: 9780471687238, 978-0471687238
    ISBN10: 0471687235

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    This book is designed for a one-semester operating-systems course for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students. Prerequisites for the course generally include an introductory course on computer architecture and an advanced programming course.

    The goal of this book is to bring together and explain current practice in operating systems. This includes much of what is traditionally covered in operating-system textbooks: concurrency, scheduling, linking and loading, storage management (both real and virtual), file systems, and security. However, the book also covers issues that come up every day in operating-systems design and implementation but are not often taught in undergraduate courses. For example, the text includes:

    • Deferred work, which includes deferred and asynchronous procedure calls in Windows, tasklets in Linux, and interrupt threads in Solaris.
    • The intricacies of thread switching, on both uniprocessor and multiprocessor sys

      Table of Contents
      1 Introduction.

      1.1 Operating Systems.

      1.2 A Brief History of Operating Systems.

      1.3 A Simple OS.

      1.4 Beyond a Simple OS.

      1.5 Conclusions.

      1.6 Exercises.

      1.7 References.

      2 Multithreaded Programming.

      2.1 Why Threads?

      2.2 Programming with Threads.

      2.3 Conclusions.

      2.4 Exercises.

      2.5 References.

      3 Basic Concepts.

      3.1 Context Switching.

      3.2 Input/Output Architectures.

      3.3 Dynamic Storage Allocation.

      3.4 Linking and Loading.

      3.5 Booting.

      3.6 Conclusions.

      3.7 Exercises.

      3.8 References.

      4 Operating-System Design.

      4.1 A Simple System.

      4.2 Rethinking Operating-System Structure.

      4.3 Conclusions.

      4.4 Exercises.

      4.5 References.

      5 Processor Management.

      5.1 Threads Implementations.

      5.2 Interrupts.

      5.3 Scheduling.

      5.4 Conclusions.

      5.5 Exercises.

      5.6 References.

      6 File Systems.

      6.1 The Basics of File Systems.

      6.2 Crash Resiliency.

      6.3 Directories and Naming.

      6.4 Multiple Disks.

      6.5 Flash Memory.

      6.6 Case Studies.

      6.7 Conclusions.

      6.8 Exercises.

      6.9 References.

      7 Memory Management.

      7.1 Memory Management in the Early Days.

      7.2 Hardware Support for Virtual Memory.

      7.3 Operating-System Issues.

      7.4 Conclusions.

      7.5 Exercises.

      7.6 References.

      8 Security.

      8.1 Security Goals.

      8.2 Security Architectures.

      8.3 Conclusions.

      8.4 Exercises.

      8.5 References.

      9 Introduction to Networking.

      9.1 Network Basics.

      9.2 Remote Procedure Call Protocols.

      9.3 Conclusions.

      9.4 Exercises.

      9.5 References.

      10 Distributed File Systems.

      10.1 The Basics.

      10.2 NFS Version 2.

      10.3 Common Internet File System (CIFS).

      10.4 DFS.

      10.5 NFS Version 4.

      10.6 Conclusions.

      10.7 Exercises.

      10.8 References.

      Appendix URL Index.

      Glossary.

      Index.

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