Operating Systems Course @ Ariel University

Lectures:

Lecture 1

• What is an operating system?
• What is Unix?
• What is Linux?
• What is an open source code?
• Open source license type
• Working in Linux - code coverage, profiles
• Relevant system calls: None
• Relevant chapters in the guide: None
• All the material is in the presentation and only in the presentation
• Relevant chapters in the literature: APUE chapter 1, 2, 3; OSC chapter 1+2

Lecture 2

Creating processes. Waiting for the processes to finish. signals. Sending a signal to the process. signal processing.

• Relevant system calls:
  • signals: kill(2), raise(2), signal(2), signal(2)
  • processes: fork(2) , wait(2), waited(2), execXX
  • Communication between processes using pipe(2)
  • Copying a file descriptor using dup(2) dup2(2)
• Guides: Been guide to IPC chapters 2+3+4 for exercise
• Literature: OSC 3 APUE 7, 19

Lecture 3

• Relevant system calls: All the system calls that appear in chapters 7.3, 5, 7.2 of the beej manual.
  • socket(2) , setsockopt(2), bind(2), listen(2), accept(2), connect(2), send(2), recv(2), sendto(2), recvfrom(2), close(2)
  • poll(2) select(2)
  • getaddrinfo(2)
• Sources:
  • Lesson 3 Beej guide to network programming chapters 1-3 Book: APUE 16, CN 5,6
  • Beej guide to network programming chapter 5 Book: APUE 14, CN 7
  • Beej Guide to network programming 7.3 + 7.2 + 7.1 APUE 15 book

Lecture 4

Synchronization models

Communication between processes using locks on files, unix domain sockets, and shared memory using mmap.

• Relevant system calls
  • mmap(2) munmap(2) fcntl(2) socketpair(2) : Calls used to work with Internet sockets (already learned) - to work with unix domain sockets
• Sources:
  • Lesson: Beej guide ot unix IPC chapters 6+10+11
  • Book: OSC 6-8

Lecture 6

Threads: Threads creation and termination

• Sources:
  • Presentation
  • Book: OSC 4, APUE 12

Lecture 7

Synchronization Threads, POSIX Mutex, POSIX cond

• Sources:
  • Presentation
  • Book: OSC 7, APUE 12

Lectire 8

Book: OSC 7, APUE 12

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