COMP 530 -- Introduction to Operating Systems Fall 2009 MWF 2:00-3:15, Brooks 007 Instructor: Kevin Jeffay Office hours by appointment FB316, jeffay at cs.unc.edu

Copies of Homework Assignments

• Homework 1 -- UNIX Warmup (Fri 8/26) Due 9/9
• Homework 2 -- Building a Simple UNIX Shell (Wed 9/9) Due 9/23
  
• Homework 3 -- Written Problems on Processes & Scheduling (Wed 9/23) Due 9/30
• Homework 4 -- Implementing Producer/Consumer Systems With Threads (9/30) Due 10/14 **REVISED 10/4**
• Homework 5 -- Some written problems on process synchronization (10/12) Due 10/21 **REVISED 10/18**
• Homework 6 -- Implementing Producer/Consumer Systems With Pipes (10/28) Due 11/4
• Homework 7 -- Some written problems on memory management (11/4) (Due 11/18)
  

Class Schedule & Lecture Notes

• Aug. 26 -- Administrivia
• Aug. 31 -- History of OSs & Basic OS Concepts
  Reading:
  • Chapter 1 -- Introduction
  • Chapter 2 -- Operating Systems Structures
• Sep. 2 -- Processes
  Reading:
  • Chapter 3 -- Processes
• Sep. 9 -- Process Implementations & Processor Scheduling
  Reading:
  • Chapter 4 -- Threads
  • Chapter 5 -- CPU Scheduling
• Sep. 14 -- Scheduling Policies
  Reading:
  • Chapter 19 -- Real-Time Systems
  • Chapter 21 -- The Linux System (section 21.5 on Scheduling)
• Sep. 21 -- Process Coordination
  Reading:
  • Chapter 6 -- Process Synchronization
• Sep. 23 -- Semaphores (An animated version of the slides is available here.)
  Reading:
  • Chapter 6 -- Process Synchronization
• Oct. 5 -- Higher-Level Synchronization Primitives
  Reading:
  • Chapter 6 -- Process Synchronization
• Oct. 12 -- Message Passing
  Reading:
  • Chapter 21 -- The Linux Systems (section 21.9 on Inter-Process Communication)
• Oct. 19 -- Memory Management
  Reading:
  • Chapter 8 -- Main Memory
• Oct. 21 -- Virtual Memory
  Reading:
  • Chapter 9 -- Virtual Memory
• Nov. 4 -- Page Replacement Algorithms
  Reading:
  • Chapter 9 -- Virtual Memory

On-Line References

• COMP 530 Lab web page

What you have to look forward to when you graduate...

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