About OS & UNIX course
What you'll learn
OS Introduction
What is an Operating System?
Operating System Definitions
Parallel /multiprocessor/tightly coupled systems
User interface
Objectives of PMS
What is in PCB?
CPU Scheduling
Topics covered
Basic concepts
What is a scheduler
CPU Scheduling
Dispatcher
CPU Scheduler
Scheduling Mechanism
Deadline Scheduling
Inter-process communication
What is FMS?
Need of FMS
File Concept
File Structure
What is FS?
Need of FS
File system organization
Allocation Methods
Contiguous Allocation
Contiguous Allocation of Disk Space
Management
Background
Memory Management Requirements
Memory-Management Unit(MMU)
Logical Organization
Physical Organization
Contiguous Allocation
Fragmentation
Fixed Partitioning
Dynamic Partitioning
Paging
Simple Paging
Address Translation Scheme Logical-to-Physical Address Translation in Paging
Simple Segmentation
Evaluation of Simple Segmentation
Implementation
Address translation in segmentation
History of UNIX
Why learn UNIX
Main Features of UNIX
Why UNIX is so widely used?
UNIX 0.S Structure
Application layer
The System Call Interface
The UNIX Operating System
UNIX Shells
Purpose of the Shell
File Descriptors
Comparing the shell programming with C- programming
Shell Initialization
Exporting Environment Variables
Shell Variables
Special Variables
Embedding Punctuation Mark
Embedding Variable Substitution
Escape Sequences for the echo Command
Arithmetic Substitution
Flow Control
String Comparisons
String Comparison Options for the test Command
Numerical Comparison Operators for the test Command
Operators for Creating Compound Expressions
Loops
Functions
File subsystem
Features of unix file system
Files and directories
Unix file system structure
File attributes
File System Model
Block addressing Scheme
Direct blocks
Single indirect blocks
Screen shot of mount command
DISK I/O : Buffering mechanism
Structure of the buffer pool
Operations on the Buffer
Kernel data structures for files
File descriptor table
File related operations
Creating links for files
Algorithm to redirect standard input
FILE LOCKING
Definition of struct flock. Refer
Pseudo code —Write Lock
Program and process
Executable program
Process states & transitions
Context of a process
Wait and waitpid
Implementation
The concept of paging
Demand paging
Data structures for Demand paging
Signals
Signal concepts
Signal identification
Conditions that generate signals
Interrupts and signals
Unnamed Pipes
Half duplex one way communication
Two way communication
Differences b/w pipes and files
Fifos - Creating a FIFO
Blocking Actions on a FIFO
Socket
Connection oriented socket calls (TCP)
Connectionless socket calls (UDP)
Byte ordering functions
Connect
Concurrent Server
What are Pthreads?
Why Pthreads?
The Pthreads API
Terminating Thread Execution
Passing Arguments to Threads
Condition Variables
Variables
Predefined Variables
Automatic variables
Consider the following makefile:
GNU Make command options