Operating Systems (COM301)

Books:

• Modern Operating Systems

Subjects:

• Operating systems: basic concepts, classification, history
• Process management, time sharing, context switching, process management in UNIX
• Threads, thread management, thread management in UNIX
• Interprocess communication (IPC) and synchronization, semaphores, semaphores in UNIX
• Classical problems on concurrent processes
• Deadlock, detection and avoidanc, shared memory in UNIX
• Process scheduling algorithms, process scheduling in UNIX
• Memory management, segmentation, paging
• Memory allocation, virtual memory management
• File systems and management, UNIX file system
• Input / Output