Operating Systems
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Accreditation:

1. This version of these course notes was assembled Spring 2006 by John Bell, for CS 385 at the University of Illinois Chicago. It is being modified dynamically for Spring 2009.
2. The required textbook for this course is "Operating System Concepts, Eighth Edition " by Silberschatz, Galvin, and Gagne. Most of the material in these pages was originally taken from the seventh edition of that book, and is being updated dynamically to the eighth edition.
3. Some material was taken from the current literature in the field of operating systems and similar sources. Accreditation for these items is provided where such material appears.

Course Notes, by Topic ( and Chapter Where Appropriate )

Note: Any topic which does not have a page linked to it, or for which the linked page is unavailable, is under consideration and/or under development, and is subject to change. In particular, "future" chapters have probably not been updated from edition 7 to edition 8.

Disclaimer: The following note pages are just that - notes. They serve as reminders to myself of what I want to talk about, but not much more. They do not replace the need for students to take their own notes during class, and they certainly do not replace reading and studying the material in the required textbook.

• Reccomended Books ( Beyond the required course text )
  • "Managing Projects with Make", Andrew Oram & Steve Talbott, O'Reilly, ISBN 0-937-76-90-0.
  • "Programming with GNU Software", Mike Loukides & Andy Oram, O'Reilly, ISBN 1-56592-112-7.
  • "The C Programming Language, Second Edition", Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie, Prentice Hall, ISBN -013-110163-3.
  • One of the following:
    • "Using C on the UNIX System", David A. Curry , O'Reilly, ISBN 0-937175-23-4, Out of print :-(
    • W. Richard Stevens and Stephen A. Rago, "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment", Second Edition, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-43307-9, $75 hardcover, HUGE 927 pp.
    • Marc J. Rochkind, "Advanced UNIX Programming", Second Edition, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-13-141154-3, $50 paperback, 719 pp. Probably the best choice of those listed here ( for our purposes. )
    • Eric S. Raymond, "The Art of UNIX Programming", Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-13-142901-9, $40 paperback, 525 pp.
  • "C++ The Core Language", Gregory Satir and Doug Brown, O'Reilly, ISBN 1-56592-116-X.
  • "C++ for Java Programmers", ( Book ), Mark Allen Weiss, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-919424-X.
  • Advanced Linux Programming - The web site includes free downloads.
• Part Zero - C Programming for Java Programmers
  • Google search results for "C for Java Programmers"
  • On-line tutorial, by Indranil Gupta at Cornell University
  • Another tutorial, by Niranjan Nagarajan at Cornell University
  • C++ for Java Programmers ( Web Site ) by Andy van Dam ( or his TAs? ) at Brown University
  • A book from Amazon, and a list of related books including OS Programming tools.
  • C and C+ For Java Programmers, by Scott D. Anderson of Wellesley College, Fall 2002, version 5.
• Part One - Overview
  • Chapter 1 - Introduction
  • Chapter 2 - Operating System Structures
• Part Two - Process Management
  • Chapter 3 - Processes
  • Chapter 4 - Threads
  • Chapter 5 - CPU Scheduling
  • Chapter 6 - Process Synchronization
  • Chapter 7 - Deadlocks
• Part Three - Memory Management
  • Chapter 8 - Main Memory
  • Chapter 9 - Virtual Memory
• Part Four - Storage Management
  • Chapter 10 - File-System Interface
  • Chapter 11 - File-System Implementation
  • Chapter 12 - Mass-Storage Structure
  • Chapter 13 - I/O Systems
• Part Five - Protection and Security
  • Chapter 14 - Protection
  • Chapter 15 - Security