CS1208_08 | Faculty of Computer Science

Operating Systems

Course name

Operating Systems

Code

CS1208

Class	Undergraduate, 2008 - 2011
Level	Licenţă	Year	1	Semester	2	Status	Compulsory

Hours per week				Total hours per semester	Total hours of individual work	Credits	Evaluation type	Teaching language
C	S	L	Pr
2	0	2	0	56	94	5	P	ro

Taught by	Academic and scientific title, name
	Lecturer, PhD, Cristian Traian Vidraşcu

Required courses

Computer Architecture and Operating Systems

Objectives	The students who will attend this course will obtain knowledge about operating systems, regarding the techniques used for the design and the implementation of them. Also, they will obtain the skills to write parallel processing programs and to use the UNIX/Linux operating system.
General thematics	Basic concepts about operating systems. Architecture, components, services. System kernel. Process management. Concurrency. Scheduling. Parallel processing. Process coordination. Interprocess communication. Main memory management. Memory hierarchy. Allocation methods. Segmentation and paging. Virtual memory. Cache memory. Secondary-storage management. File systems. Disk management. Distributed systems. Distributed coordination. Types of distributed operating systems. Distributed file systems.
Seminary / Laboratory thematics	Overview of the UNIX/Linux operating system. Structure and general features. Guide of usage. Commands. Shells. Bash scripting language. Concurrent programming in C language under Linux. Working with files. Exclusive/concurrent access to files. Process management. Creation, synchronization and executable loading. UNIX signals. Interprocess communication. Pipes. Fifos. Other communication mechanisms. Terminal management. Ncurses library.
Teaching methods	The teaching of knowlegde will be made through exposure combined with conversation.

Bibliography

A.Tanenbaum : Modern Operating Systems (Third Edition), Prentice-Hall, 2001.
A.Silberschatz et al. : Operating System Concepts (Sixth Edition), Addison-Wesley, 2001.
M.Ben-Ari : Principles of Concurrent Programming, Prentice-Hall International, 1982.
R.Stevens : Advanced UNIX Programming in the UNIX Environments, Addison-Wesley, 1992.
S.Buraga, G.Ciobanu : Atelier de programare în retele de calculatoare, Ed. Polirom, Iaşi, 2001.
C.Vidraşcu : Sisteme de operare II. Manual pentru ID, Ed. Univ. „Al. I. Cuza”, Iaşi, 2004.

Evaluation	conditions	The presence at the laboratory activities and at the two written thesis.
	criterias
	modes	Evaluation during the semester.
	formula	30% * Thesis1 mark + 30% * Thesis2 mark + 40% * Laboratory mark