College of Engineering & CS Wright State University Dayton, Ohio 45435-0001

CEG 433/633: Operating Systems Resources Prabhaker Mateti

Notes

• Code Examples
• You must read General Expectations of your project work.
• File System Design.ppt  File System Design: Lecture notes for CEG 433, Lectures by: Dr. Prabhaker Mateti, Notes by: Patrick Flaherty, January 2005.
• Writing Pre- Post-Conditions for Real Programs, Prabhaker Mateti, Wright State U, Dayton, OH.
• Pointers and Dynamic Memory Allocation, Prabhaker Mateti, Wright State U, Dayton, OH.
• Buddy Algorithm pdf
• http://cne.gmu.edu/modules/vm/submap.html Virtual memory tutorial
• http://www.mossywell.com/boot-sequence/  Computer Boot Up
• http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/x1440.html The Linux boot process

Discussion Group

Post all your questions, helpful comments, criticisms, and suggestions regarding this course (lectures, projects, home work, exams) to our discussion group. I am hoping for a lively discussion leading to good answers and clarifications. Keep an eye on this newsgroup.

Old Exams

Several of the old Exams, and solutions to a couple of problems, are on-line.

Books

• (SGG) Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin & Greg Gagne, Operating System Concepts.  There are multiple editions.  Any one of the following is acceptable.
  • 2001: John Wiley & Sons, Inc ISBN 0-471-41743-2; 6th Edition, http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/avi/os-book/
  • 1998: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0-471-36414-2;  5th Edition
  • 1997: Addison-Wesley,  ISBN 0-201-59113-8; 4th Edition
  • Errata, Slides and home page for the book: http://www.bell-labs.com/topic/books/os-book/ 
    
• (RS ) W. Richard Stevens and Stephen A. Rago, Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment, Second Edition, Addison-Wesley, ISBN: 0-201-4330709 http://www.apuebook.com/   Download the source code and Errata.

Slides

• http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/avi/os-book/   Operating Systems Concepts, Sixth Edition, Abraham Silberschatz Peter Baer Galvin Greg Gagne.  See the book SG above.
• http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/books/mos2/  Andrew S. Tanenbaum's Modern Operating Systems, 2nd ed.

CEG 233/333

• CEG 233: Linux and Windows http://www.cs.wright.edu/~pmateti/Courses/233/Top/index.html
• Link to CEG 333: Introduction to Unix

Unix/Linux

• A Minimal List of Unix Commands. Must learn.
• Linux on Your Own PC  If wish to setup Linux on your own PC, read these notes.
• unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/ An into to various Unix commands.  Not Linux-specific.
• www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/C++Programming-HOWTO-12.html C++ on Linux

Debuggers

• Debugging Under Unix: gdb Tutorial, Andrew Gilpin,  Washington U, St Louis, MO
• Guide to Faster, Less Frustrating Debugging, This tutorial is by Norman Matloff, a professor at University of California at Davis.
• Visual Debugging with ddd, Wolfgang Mauerer, Linux Gazette, 73, December 2001

OSIS Lab

This is the lab associated with the course.  The machines in the lab are setup to boot into Linux or Windows XP. You are expected to work on the projects using a Linux system.  You are expected to turnin the files of your projects using the turnin program accessible in this lab.

It is ok to reboot the machines, as needed.  But, please do not turn the machines off without a proper shut down.  Please read the OSIS Lab Policies.