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This document is the syllabus for an Advanced Operating Systems course. It outlines 5 units that will be covered: processes and scheduling, interprocess communication and synchronization, files and file systems, devices and device drivers, and resource management and security. It also lists 7 suggested assignments that involve exploring processes, signals, interprocess communication, file I/O, device drivers, and scheduling models. Recommended textbooks are listed for additional reference materials.

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Os Syllabus

This document is the syllabus for an Advanced Operating Systems course. It outlines 5 units that will be covered: processes and scheduling, interprocess communication and synchronization, files and file systems, devices and device drivers, and resource management and security. It also lists 7 suggested assignments that involve exploring processes, signals, interprocess communication, file I/O, device drivers, and scheduling models. Recommended textbooks are listed for additional reference materials.

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ADVANCED OPERATING SYSTEMS

Course Syllabus

June 2014

Prerequisites: Operating Systems, C Programming

UNIT - I: PROCESSES AND SCHEDULING


Process States and System Call Interface; Life Cycle of a Process: Process Dynamics; Scheduler:
working and implementation; Linux Process States and System Calls; Process Groups, Sessions,
Foreground and Background Processes.

UNIT - II: INTERPROCESS COMMUNICATION AND SYNCHRONISATION


Signals, Pipes and Named Pipes (FIFOs); Threads and pthread library; Mutexes and Condition
Variables; Semaphores; Producer-Consumer Problem and Solutions using mutexes, condition
variables and semaphores.

UNIT - III: FILES AND FILE SYSTEMS


File and File Meta-data; File Naming Systems; File System Operations; File System Implemen-
tation; File System Structures; Booting an OS; File System Optimisation.

UNIT - IV: DEVICES AND DEVICE DRIVERS


Devices and Types of Devices; Terminal, Disk, SCSI, Tape and CD devices; Unification of Files
and Devices; Device Drivers: Concepts and Implementation Details.

UNIT - V: RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND SECURITY


Resource Management Issues; Types of Resources; Integrated Resource Scheduling; Queuing
Models of Scheduling; Protection of Resources – hardware, software, and attacks; Security
Policies.

SUGGESTED ASSIGNMENTS
1. Short programs with fork() and exec() family of system calls to create parent and child
processes; impact on local, extern and static variables.

2. Study output of ps command in Linux and draw process trees, identify process groups,
session and group leaders, foreground and backgound processes.

3. Write programs to explore the variety of signals and their behaviours.

4. Write programs for interprocess communication with pipes and popen() calls; pipes across
parent and child processes; pipes across threads.
5. Producer-Consumer problem: restricted and general versions; solutions using mutexes,
condition variables and semaphores.

6. Exploring FILE structure in Linux and the fcntl() and ioctl() calls.

7. Writing a simple device driver for a parallel port; extension to USB port (optional).

TEXTBOOKS:
Recommended:

• Charles Crowley. Operating Systems: A Design-Oriented Approach, Tata McGraw-Hill


(2001 or later)
• Richard Stevens, Stephen Rago. Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment,
Addison-Wesley (2013). Available for free download in PDF.

References:

• Maekawa, M. and Arthur E. Oldehoeft and Oldehoeft, R.R. Operating Systems: Ad-
vanced Concepts, Benjamin Cummings (1987). Available through Google Books.
• David A. Rusling. The Linux Kernel, http://www.tldp.org/LDP/tlk/tlk.html

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