Operating System Functions

Lecturer: Dr S.A. Crosby (sac@cl.cam.ac.uk)

No. of lectures: 8  

Introduction.
Memory management.
Memory protection and sharing.
Integrated and separated I/O.
Filing systems, file and directory structure and access control.
Physical space management.
Backup and archiving.
Naming.
Protection.
Segmentation revisited.
Case studies.

Recommended books:

Bacon, J. (1993). Concurrent Systems. Addison-Wesley (2nd ed.).

Silberschatz, A., Peterson, J.L. & Galvin, P.C. (1991). Operating Systems Concepts. Addison-Wesley (3rd ed.).

Janson, P.A. (1985). Operating Systems, Structure and Mechanisms. Academic Press.

Finkel, R.A. (1988). An Operating System Vade Mecum. Prentice-Hall (2nd ed.).

Tanenbaum, A.S. (1992). Modern Operating Systems. Prentice-Hall.