Operating Systems - MCA

Timings: Mo, We: 11:00AM-1:00PM, Fr : 2:00PM-3:00PM

Evaluation Criteria

• Internal : 40 marks
• Minor : Best of two minors - 20 marks
• Take-home Minor 2 exam paper
• Quiz/Assignments : 20 marks
• File System Assignment
• Major : 60 marks

BOOKS RECOMMENDED

• Operating System Principles (Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne, 9th edition)
• Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment (APUE) (W.Richard Stevens)
• Unix Network Programming, vol. 2 (IPC) (W.Richard Stevens)
• Operating Systems (William Stallings)
• The design of the Unix OS (Maurice Bach)

Some useful links to add to the knowledge of what we cover in class

• Memory Management:
• Memory Management from Rutgers
• Linkers and Loaders
• Memory Management in Linux
• File Management:
• Hard Links and Soft links

Assignment Submission and Grading Policy

Suggested Assignments

• Reading Assignment 1: Understanding Linux CPU schedulers
• Programming Assignment 1: Build your own basic shell
• Programming Assignment 2: Extend your shell to handle background processes and piped commands
• Programming Assignment 3: Build your own basic 'ps' command

• Inside Memory Management
• Against Priority Inheritance by Yodaiken
• Priority Inheritance - The Real Story - Rebuttal to Yodaiken's article
• Open Solaris Internals Documentation
• Understanding the Linux 2.6.8.1 CPU Scheduler
• Multiprocessing with the Completely Fair Scheduler
• The /proc Filesystem
• Access the Linux kernel using the /proc filesystem
• Anatomy of Linux Synchronization Methods
• The Linux Kernel
• How the kernel manages your memory
• Anatomy of a program in memory
• How statically linked programs run on Linux