CMPUT 379 - Operating System Concepts

Overview

Definition of a process; process states and state transitions; process control block; operations on processes; interrupt processing; parallel processing; resource allocation; shared and unshared allocation; critical sections; semaphores; deadlock; deadlock prevention, avoidance, detection, and recovery; memory management; memory allocation schemes; virtual memory; paging and segmentation; page replacement strategies; working sets; demand paging; job and processor scheduling; scheduling levels, objectives, and criteria; various scheduling algorithms; multi-processor considerations; file system functions; file organization; tree-structured file systems; space allocation; file catalogs; file access control mechanisms; operating systems security.

Objectives

• Have a basic understanding of operating system organization
• Understand several new aspects of programming such as:
  • Process scheduling
  • Process synchronization
  • Multi-process computation
  • Deadlock avoidance
  • File system organization
  • Security

Course Work

• Assignments
• Midterm
• Final Exam