COSC 4321: Operating Systems - Course Readings

Contents

• Assignment 1 (Course Readings)
• Assignment 2 (Course Readings)
• Assignment 3 (Course Readings)
• Assignment 4 (Course Readings)

• Birrell, "An Introduction to Programming with Threads" (Course Reader)
• Christopher, Procter, and Anderson, "The Nachos Instructional Operating System" (Course Reader)
• Chapter 3, Threads and Lightweight Processes (Vahalia)
• Chapter 7, Synchronization and Multiprocessing (Vahalia)

• Hoare, "The Emperor's Old Clothes" (Course Reader)
• Lampson, "Hints for Computer System Design" (Course Reader)
• Chapter 2, The Process and the Kernel (Vahalia)
• Chapter 16, Device Drivers and I/O (Vahalia)
• Chapter 5, Process Scheduling (Vahalia)

• Levy and Lipman, "Virtual Memory Management in the VAX/VMS Operating System" (Course Reader)
• Chapter 13, Virtual Memory (Vahalia)
  • *** Especially 13.3.4, The MIPS R3000
• Chapter 12, Kernel Memory Allocation (Vahalia)

• McKusick, Joy, Leffler, and Fabry, "A Fast File System for UNIX" (Course Reader)
• Chapter 8, File System Interface and Framework (Vahalia)
• Chapter 9, File System Implementations (Vahalia)
• Chapter 11, Advanced File Systems (Vahalia)