• Goals and Introduction (pdf, updated 01/13/16)
• Memory Allocation for Unix Processes (pdf, review). More on memory management in C
• Quick Overview of C versus Java (pdf, use for reference)

Reading

• OSTEP Chapter 13, Address Spaces
• OSTEP Chapter 14, Memory API

Homework

• Command Line Arguments (available under Assignments). Due on Thursday, .

• Program Execution Environment (pdf). More on the Unix environment.

Code we wrote in class

• pathenv.c

Homework

• Manipulating Arrays of Strings (available under Assignments). Due on Thursday, .

• Introduction to Unix Processes (pdf). More on fork, wait and exit

Handout

• Creating and Destroying Unix Processes (pdf)

Reading

• OSTEP Chapter 4, The Abstraction: The Process
• OSTEP Chapter 5, Process API (up to section 5.3)
• Beej's fork Primer

Homework

• Smart Shell, Part One (available under Assignments). Due on Thursday, .

• Executing Unix Processes (pdf). More on execv and its variants

Handout

• Creating and Executing Unix Processes (html)

Reading

• OSTEP Chapter 5, Process API (from section 5.3 on)

• Continued from last week ...
• CPU Scheduling (pdf)

• CPU Scheduling Practice (pdf)

Reading

• OSTEP Chapter 7, CPU Scheduling

• Signals or Software Interrupts (html)
• Anonymous Pipes (pdf, html)
• Named Pipes or FIFOs (html)
• Message Queues (html)

Code

• Solution to the factorial program (factorial.c, try it on your own first)

Reading

• Comprehensive Guide to Unix Interprocess Communication

• Remote Procedure Calls (pdf)
• Sockets (to be covered later)

HandsOn

• RPC Implementation (html)

• Introduction to Threads (pdf)

HandsOn

• Programming with POSIX Threads (html)
• Code badcnt.c

Reading

• OSTEP Chapter 26, Concurrency and Threads

• Instructor away at conference
  

• Malware: Viruses, Worms and Trojans

• Synchronizing Threads with Semaphores (pdf)

HandsOn

• Programming with POSIX semaphores (html)

Midterm review

• Programming with POSIX Threads (html). Code badcnt.c
• Programming with POSIX semaphores (html)

• Classical Synchronization Problems (pdf)
• The Readers-Writers Problem (pdf)

Reading

• OSTEP Chapter 31, Semaphores

• Socket Programming (pdf)

• Socket Programming (contd.)

• Echo Client/Server Application
• Helper functions nethelp.h  nethelp.c
• Code we wrote in class myserver.c  myclient.c  Makefile

• Unix Socket Tutorial

• Buffer overflow bug in getaddrinfo

• Memory Management and Protection. Virtual Memory (pdf)

Reading

• OSTEP Chapter 18, Paging
• OSTEP Chapter 19, Translation Lookaside Buffers
• OSTEP Chapter 22, Page Replacement Policies