Comp 420 Advanced Operating Systems Comparative Systems Programming

Comp 420 Advanced Operating Systems

Comparative Systems Programming

Course Description

Prerequisite: Comp 322 & 322L
Investigate advanced systems topics in the Unix operating systems environment. Unix, in the form of Linux and Mac OS/X, has penetrated the personal computer market. Unix permeates the infrastructure of the Internet; it is the operating system of choice for a majority of nodes on the Internet as well as the primary operating system on a large number of telephone switching systems that support the Internet. Unix has become the defacto standard of the operating system industry; the Windows NT/2000/XP family has incorporated major aspects of Unix into their kernel architectures; Mac OS/X is built around a Unix based operating system consisting of a Mach kernel and a BSD Unix subsystem. The projected new communications infrastructure means that the demand for accomplished Unix systems programmers and system managers will continue to grow.
As computers become more powerful, there will be increased demand for parallel programming and execution of processes and threads, especially on server systems.

Accordingly, the course will focus on advanced systems programming topics using specialized knowledge of the internals of the Unix HP-UX11i and Windows NT/2000/XP operating systems. Selected projects will be designed for, and scheduled for execution on, both the CECS’s HP V2600 parallel processor using the HP-UX11i Unix operating system and the Windows NT/2000/XP operating system family.
The following systems programming topics will be explored in depth:

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  Threads – Pthreads
  
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  Advanced Shared Memory Management
  
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  Terminal I/O Programming
  
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  Session Management
  
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  Advanced Interprocess Control
  

The class will be structured as a series of lectures punctuated by short programming projects and work on a specified term project. The term projects may be structured as either systems programming or operating systems research projects.

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  Midterm Examination
  
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  Final Examination
  

• Short Projects & Homework

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  Term Project
  

The objective of the course is to provide students the opportunity to acquire sufficient knowledge to enable them to function as systems programmers, system managers, system designers and/or system users.

1. 
   Robbins Unix Systems Programming
   

2. 
   Hart Windows Systems Programming
   

3. 
   Cooper HP-UX11i Internals
   

4. 
   Russinovich Microsoft Windows Internals, 4^th ed.
   

1. 
   Vahalia Unix Internals: The New Frontier
   

2. 
   Pate Unix Internals
   

3. 
   Mauro Solaris Internals
   

4. 
   Gray Interprocess Communications in Unix
   

5. 
   Curry Unix Systems Programming for SVR4
   

6. 
   Butenhof Programming with POSIX Threads
   

5. 
   Beck Linux Kernel Internals, 2^nd ed
   

7. 
   Beck Linux Kernel Programming, 3^rd ed.
   

8. 
   Haviland Unix System Programming, 2^nd ed.
   

9. 
   Sobell Unix System V, 3^rd ed.
   

10. 
    Stevens Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment
    

11. 
    Rochkind Advanced Unix Programming
    

12. 
    Beveridge Multithreading Applications in Win32:
    

6. 
   Cooper HP-UX11i Internals
   

7. 
   Russinovich Microsoft Windows Internals, 4^th ed.
   

8. 
   Silberschatz Operating System Concepts, 7^th ed.
   

9. 
   Kelley & Pohl A Book of C
   

1. 
   Ray Mac OS X Unleashed, 2/e
   

Sams Publishing

2. 
   Bar Linux Internals
   

3. 
   Nutt Kernel Projects for Linux
   

4. 
   Nutt Operating System Projects using Windows NT