Operating Systems Spring 2007

Office Hours
Dave Hollinger hollingd@cs.rpi.edu Mon 6-8pm, Thu 1-3pm Amos Eaton 107	Jiao Tao taoj2@cs.rpi.edu Tue 3:00-5:00pm Thurs 8:50-9:50am Amos Eaton 217	Apirak Hoonlor hoonla@cs.rpi.edu Monday 10:30-12:00 Thur 4:00-5:30 Amos Eaton 217

HW	Due Date	Assignment	FAQ
1	2/9/2007 11:59PM	C Programming (mini shell)	HW1 FAQ
2	2/20/2007 11:59PM	Threads, files and directories
3	3/16/2007 11:59PM	Da Shell	HW3 FAQ
4	4/4/2007 11:59PM	Page Replacement Algorithms	HW4 FAQ
5	4/20/2007 11:59PM	File System	HW5 FAQ
6	5/1/2007	RSS Feed Retrieval (sockets program in C)	HW6 FAQ

Topic	Adobe PDF	Links
Course Introduction	CourseIntro.pdf
Chapter 1: Introduction	Chapter1.pdf	Computer History
Crash Course on Using Unix (review)	unixcc.pdf	Unix FAQ Unix Progamming FAQ Unix Tutorials ssh.org (ssh client)
Sample Unix Session	unixsession.pdf	Logging in to CS Machines from Windows (a CompOrg Lab)
C Programming for C++ Programmers (review)	cprogcc.pdf
Chapter 2: Processes and Threads	Chapter2.pdf	fork() sample code Windows sample code Unix exec sample code Unix stat() sample code
Threads Programming	ThreadsProg.pdf	Simple threads code More threads samples (mutex, cond signals)
Chapter 3: Deadlock	Chapter3.pdf
Writing a Shell	shell.pdf	Sample Code (pipes, I/O redirection)
Memory Management	Chapter4.pdf
I/O and Device Drivers	Chapter5.pdf	Linux Device Drivers (Safari)
Chapter 6: Filesystems	Chapter6.pdf	File Systems (wikipedia)
Networking Background	network.pdf	OSI Reference Model (webopedia) RFC 791: IP (ietf.org) RFC 793: TCP (ietf.org) TFC 768: UDP (ietf.org)
Fifo, and TCP/IP Sockets programming	fifosock.pdf	Sample Code
HTTP	http.pdf
Chapter 8 - Multiple Processor Systems	Chapter8.pdf
Chapter 9 - Security	Chapter9.pdf