COMP 2320 Operating Systems Home Page

COMP2320 Operating Systems

Lecturer: Joseph Kee-Yin NG
Telephone: 3411-7864
Facsimile: 3411-7892
ICQ: 113034029
Office: R730, Run Run Shaw Building
E-mail: jng@comp.hkbu.edu.hk

Teaching Assistant: Lam Sze Man, Priscilla
E-mail: priscillalsm@gmail.com

Class Schudule: First class for 06-07, starts at Sept. 4th 2006 at LT3

Mon	09:30 - 11:20	LT3
Wed	12:30 - 13:20	LT2

Teaching Materials:--- PowerPoint format

Class Notes #1 --- (Subject Outline & Contents)
Class Notes #2 --- (Operating System Objectives & Functions)
Class Notes #3 --- (Process)
Class Notes #4 --- (Threads)
Class Notes #5 --- (Mutual Exclusion & Synchronization)
Class Notes #6 --- (Deadlock & Starvation)
Class Notes #7 --- (Memory Management)
Class Notes #8 --- (Virtual Memory)
Class Notes #9 --- (Uniprocessor Scheduling) Scheduling Algorithms (animated)
Class Notes #10 ---(I/O Management, Disk Scheduling, & RAID)
Class Notes #11 ---(File Management)

Supplementary Notes:
Class Notes on Unix Commands
Web page on Unix Commands

Mid Term:
Date: November 15th 2006 (Wednesday)
Time: 12:30pm - 1:20pm (50 Minutes)
Place1: E1017 (For BSC COMP SCI)
Place2: LT2 (For the rest of the class -- BSC COMP STD, BSC-S MATH, BSSC GEOG, ...etc)
Format: Closed Book, Closed Notes, Open Minded, Written Examination.
Coverage: Chapter 2 to Chapter 7.

Mid-Term Suggested Solution

Homework Assignments:

Assignment #1:
- Description for the Assignment #1 (pdf)
- Demo Program for Readwriter (Readwriter)
- Suggested Solution for Readwriter (Readwriter.doc)
- Demo Program for totd (totd)
- Suggested Solution for totd (totd.doc)
- What and How to hand-in the assignment:
  1. Create a directory called comp2320 under the "Home" directory of your CSLINUX account. And create a directory called assign1 under comp2320. Upload your source programs xxxxxxxx-totd.c and xxxxxxxx-readerwriter.c, where xxxxxxxx is your login ID.

Notes on Process and Thread Programming:

2process.c --- a program that demonstrates the use of the fork( ) system call
3process.c --- a program that demonstrates how to spawn 3 processes
5threads.c --- a program that demonstrates how to spawn 5 threads
dotprod_mutex.c --- a program that demonstrates how to use mutex
join.c --- a program that demonstrates how to wait for all threads to finish

Notes on Semaphore Programming:

sem_pack.h --- semaphore package header file
no_sem_count.c --- sample program no_sem_count.c (without semaphore)
sem_count.c --- sample program sem_count.c (with semaphore)

Other useful functions or routines:

random.c -- a random number generator routine

Text Book:
William Stallings, Operating Systems 5th Ed.
Prentice Hall 2005 (ISBN 0-13-127837-1)
Prentice Hall Home Page

Reference:

Silberschartz A., and Galvin, P.B., Operating System Concepts, 5th Edition, Addison-Wesley, 1998,
Dietel H. M., An Introduction to Operating Systems, 2nd Edition, Addison-Wesley, 1990.