CISC 361-010 Spring 2012
Operating Systems

Details

• Required Textbook:
  • Avi Silberschatz, etc., Operating System Concepts, 8th edition, John Wiley & Sons, (2011), ISBN 978-0-470-12872-5.
    
• Recommended Texts:
  • Sarwar, Koretsky and Sarwar, UNIX: The Textbook, 2nd edition, Addison Wesley (2004), ISBN 0-32-122731-X.
  • Kernighan and Ritchie, The C Programming Language, 2nd edition, Prentice Hall (1988), ISBN 0-13-110362-8.
  • W. Richard Stevens and Stephen A. Rago, Advanced Programming in the UNIX(R) Environment, 2nd edition, Addison Wesley (2005), ISBN 0-201-43307-9.
  • Jean J. Labrosse, MicroC/OS-II: The Real-Time Kernel, 2nd edition, CMP Books, 2002. ISBN 1-57-820103-9.
• Teaching Assistant: Fan Yang
  • email: yangfan@udel.edu
  • Office: Smith 103
  • Office Hours: Wednesday 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
• Syllabus

• Lecture Notes
• Homework Assignments
• Programming Assignments
• L. Lamport, Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed Systems, CACM, July 1978. (classnote)
• M. Chandy and J. Misra, The Drinking Philosophers Problem, ACM TOPLAS, October 1984, pp. 632-646. (classnote)

Resources:

• Spring 2012 midterm review slides and Unix slides
• Error sheet for the textbook
• Debugging Under Unix: gdb Tutorial
• Process tracing using ptrace()
• LLNL High Performance Computing Training--POSIX Threads Programming
• POSIX Threads Tutorial by Mark Hays

News:

• 2/6/2012: Welcome to CISC 361-010: Operating Systems.

Exam Dates

• Midterm Exams: 4/2 (Monday) and 4/4 (Wednesday) (open book)
• Final Exam: May 18 (Friday) 3:30PM-5:30PM (open book)