Professor:                      Anda Iamnitchi Office Hours:                 M Tu 2:30-4pm                                         or by email appointment Office:                             ENB 334 Email:                             anda at cse usf edu Teaching Assistants:     Matt Shreve and Matt Morrison Office:                             ENB 325/ENB 220 (Linux Lab) Office Hours/Tutorial:    M Tu W  10am-12pm                                         W 3-5pm Email:                             {mshreve, mamorris} at mail usf edu

Textbook: Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles (7th Edition) William Stallings Publisher: Prentice Hall; 7th edition

Syllabus

Workload. This is a demanding course. There are two programming projects, almost weekly problem assignments, three midterm exams and one optional final exam. All exams are in-class and closed books.

Topics. The course covers the following primary topic areas (discussed in the first 12 chapters of the textbook).

• Concepts in operating systems. Operating system services, operating system structure, processors and processes, protected kernels, traps, interrupts, processes, and threads.
• Processes. Threads, mutual exclusion, events, scheduling, and deadlock. Implementing and using synchronization.
• Memory management. Address spaces, protection, virtual address translation, control of memory management hardware, and physical memory management.
• Input-output and files. The storage hierarchy. File and directory structures, file cache management, dealing with disks, failure and recovery, access control and security.

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