Operating Systems In Depth

This book is designed for a one-semester operating-systems course for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students. Prerequisites for the course generally include an introductory course on computer architecture and an advanced programming course.<br /> <br /> <p>The goal of this book is to bring together and explain current practice in operating systems. This includes much of what is traditionally covered in operating-system textbooks: concurrency, scheduling, linking and loading, storage management (both real and virtual), file systems, and security. However, the book also covers issues that come up every day in operating-systems design and implementation but are not often taught in undergraduate courses. For example, the text includes:</p> <ul> <li>Deferred work, which includes deferred and asynchronous procedure calls in Windows, tasklets in Linux, and interrupt threads in Solaris.</li> <li>The intricacies of thread switching, on both uniprocessor and multiprocessor systems.</li> <li>Modern file systems, such as ZFS and WAFL.</li> <li>Distributed file systems, including CIFS and NFS version 4.</li> </ul> <p>The book and its accompanying significant programming projects make students come to grips with current operating systems and their major operating-system components and to attain an intimate understanding of how they work.</p>