CS471/571 - Operating Systems

General Information

This is the website for CS471/571 - Operating Systems taught by Steve Baker

Click on the links on the left for information about the course.

Lessons:

• Lesson 1

  Intro, Makefiles, GDB, Memory layout of a process, Kernel/User-space separation

• Lesson 2

  In Unix, everything is a file, basic I/O system calls and pipes.

• Lesson 3

  Unix process creation with fork() and execv*()

• Lesson 4

  Installing Xv6 and building a simple user-space program.

• Lesson 5

  Tracing through a system call in Xv6

• Lesson 6

  Adding a simple system call to Xv6.

• Lesson 7

  Virtual Memory & the TLB, malloc/free

• Lesson 8

  POSIX Threads (pthreads) - multi-threaded programming.

• Lesson 9

  The Xv6 Filesystem

• Lesson 10

  POSIX Shared memory - shm_open() / mmap()

• Lesson 11

  Dynamic Shared Libraries and dlopen()/dlsym()

• Lesson 12

  Signals and signal handlers

• Virtual Terminals

  Obtaining and setting up a psuedo-terminal