SYLLABUS
OPERATING SYSTEMS COURSE II
Semester 6: Engineering Sciences Track
Fundamental Teaching Unit: UEF1 Subject: Operating System 2
Credits: 5 Weighting: 3 Learning Objectives:
An in-depth study of the Unix system is recommended during tutorial and practical sessions. Thread programming and mutual exclusion mechanisms will be implemented in C under Unix. Models such as producer/consumer, readers/writers, and the dining philosophers—along with several variations—will be studied theoretically (developing algorithms using pseudocode) during tutorials and subsequently implemented in C under Unix during practical sessions.
Recommended prior knowledge: operating system 1.
Course Content: Chapter 1:
A reminder about the concept of SE.
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Concepts of program, process, thread and shared resource.
Chapter 2: Process Synchronization.
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Problem of concurrent access to critical resources and sections (Mutual Exclusion Problem)
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Synchronization tools:
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Events, Locks
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Semaphores
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Monitors
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Critical regions.
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Chapter 3: Interprocess Communication
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Sharing variables (models: producer/consumer, readers/writers)
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Mailboxes
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Message exchange (client/server model)
Chapter 4: The Interlock
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Models
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Prevention
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Avoidance
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Detection/Cure
Assessment method: Examination (60%), continuous assessment (40%)
