Operating Systems - Spring 1997 - NCCU CS4105730

Outline:

Fundamentals of UNIX: Concurrency, Programs and Processes, Files

Asynchronous Events: Signals

Concurrency: Critical Sections and Semaphores, POSIX Threads, Thread Synchronization

Communication: Client-Server Communication, Remote Procedure Calls

Instructor:

Chunhung Richard Lin

Textbooks:

"Practical UNIX Programming," by K.A. Robbins and S. Robbins, 1996.

"Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment," by W.R. Stevens, 1992.

Prerequisites:

C Language and basic understanding of UNIX.

Meeting time and place:

Tuesday 4-5pm and Thursday 10-12am at EA205.

Workload

A midterm exam (10%), a final exam (20%), weekly programming assignments (70%), and weekly assigned reading. (50% of the midterm exam and the final exam will cover the assigned reading)