CS560 -- Operating Systems

Micah Beck --- Spring 2008

Online Lecture Notes

• 1/10 We reviewed a program using fork()/exec()/pipe() etc.
• 1/15 Thread fundamentals. Threads 1
• 1/17 Thread preemption and mutual exclusion. Threads 2
• 1/22 Threaded servers. Threads 3
• 1/24 Threaded simulation & condition variables Threads 4
• 1/29 A Classical Problem in Distributed Synchronization: Dining Philosophers
• 1/31 Nonpreemptive user level threading w/semaphores KThreads #1: Using KThreads.
• 2/5 User level threads using setjmp/longjmp KThreads #2: The KThreads Implementation.
• 2/7 & 2/12 Choosing the next thread to run The Scheduling Simulator
• 2/14 Experiments with prioity of competing processes Scheduling in Unix
• 2/19 Chapter 6 in SG&G: Process Synchronization
• 2/21 Chapter 7 in SG&G: Deadlocks.
• 2/26 Chapter 8 in SG&G: Main Memory