Precis

In this course we will study the design principles of modern operating systems. You will find that OS concepts are fundamental to your ability to effectively maintain and trouble-shoot system problems that arise even in the course of normal application development.

Term Project

The best way to understand operating system concepts is to build/modify a real operating system and experiment with it. In this course, you will modify Linux operating system kernel in three steps. First, you will learn OS internals and existing kernel data structures. Second, you will extend/modify the OS by adding your own functions and data structures to the kernel. Third,you will write test programs to demonstrate that your OS code is working properly.

Lab Sessions

Tutorials will be given on the following topics : UNIX system administration basics, shell programming, writing programs with threads and processes, interprocess communication mechanism, shared memory and pipes, synchronization, semaphores and condition variables, Unix signals.