CS360 -- Systems Programming

James S. Plank

Lecture Notes

Although you can read the notes here, I have put them on bitbucket, and you can grab them to compile and use on your own machine. I strongly suggest that you do so, because hands-on work is how you learn. To grab the lecture notes so that you have all of the programs on your own machine, do:

UNIX> git clone https://jimplank@bitbucket.org/jimplank/cs360-lecture-notes.git

The lecture notes will be in the directory cs360-lecture-notes. You should occasionally do a "git pull" in that directory, to make sure that your notes are up to date.

Lecture notes on bitbucket

Lecture 1: "C Stuff 1:" Getting Started with C, Scalar Types and Aggregate Types
Lecture 2: "C Stuff 2:" Pointers, Casting, Malloc, Segmentation Violations and Bus Errors
Lecture 3: Pointer Arithmetic (Small Lecture)
Lecture 4: Strings in C
Lecture 5a: Libfdr -- The Code
Lecture 5b: Libfdr -- Fields
Lecture 5c: Libfdr -- Jvals
Lecture 5d: Libfdr -- Dllist: Doubly-Linked Lists
Lecture 5e: Libfdr -- JRB: Red-Black Trees
Lecture 6: Some Basic Terminology
Lecture 7: Introduction to System Calls and I/O
Lecture 8: Cat and Buffering
Lecture 9: Links
Lecture 10: Sh Redirection
Lecture 11: Stat and Opendir/Readdir/Closedir
Lecture 12: Prsize -- recursive directory traversal
Lecture 13: Umask and Other System Calls
Lecture 14: Assembler 1: Introduction and Local Variables
Lecture 15: Assembler 2: Procedures and Spilling
Lecture 16: Assembler 3: Pointers
Lecture 17: Assembler 4: Conditionals
Lecture 18: Memory
Lecture 19: Malloc Lecture #1
Lecture 20: Malloc Lecture #2
Lecture 21: Fork
Lecture 22: Wait and Exec
Lecture 23: Dup
Lecture 24: Pipe
Lecture 25: Signals
Lecture 26: Threads #1: The Basics
Lecture 27: Threads #2: Race Conditions and Mutexes
Lecture 28: Threads #3: Condition Variables; The Printer Simulation
Lecture 29: Sockets
Lecture 30: Thread #4: Sockets
Lecture 31: Threads #5: Condition Variables; Prime Number Testing
Lecture 32: Threads #6: Performance with Sockets
Lecture 33: The Dining Philosophers,
Lecture 33: Setjmp / Longjmp,

We didn't get to these this year (we never do):

Optional: Continuation-Based Threads (just in case you care). Old lecture notes.