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This document outlines the units of study for an operating systems course. Unit I covers operating system fundamentals like structures, components, and services. It also introduces Linux and file systems. Unit II discusses shells and process scheduling. Unit III examines deadlocks, synchronization, and classical problems. Unit IV presents interprocess communication and memory management techniques like paging and segmentation. Unit V focuses on file systems, operations, and disk scheduling algorithms. The document lists textbooks on operating systems principles, Linux programming, Unix system programming, concepts and applications. Reference books cover internals and design principles, the Unix programming environment, and Unix internals.

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This document outlines the units of study for an operating systems course. Unit I covers operating system fundamentals like structures, components, and services. It also introduces Linux and file systems. Unit II discusses shells and process scheduling. Unit III examines deadlocks, synchronization, and classical problems. Unit IV presents interprocess communication and memory management techniques like paging and segmentation. Unit V focuses on file systems, operations, and disk scheduling algorithms. The document lists textbooks on operating systems principles, Linux programming, Unix system programming, concepts and applications. Reference books cover internals and design principles, the Unix programming environment, and Unix internals.

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UNIT – I

Operating System-Introduction, Structures-Simple Batch, Multi-programmed, Time-shared,


Personal Computer, Parallel, Distributed Systems, Real-Time Systems , System components,
Operating System services.
Introduction to Linux operating system, linux file system, Linux Utilities

UNIT – II
Linux: Introduction to shell, Types of shell's , example shell programs.
Process and CPU Scheduling - Process concepts and scheduling, Operations on processes,
Cooperating Processes, Threads, Scheduling Criteria, Scheduling Algorithms, Multiple -
Processor Scheduling.

UNIT – III
Deadlocks - System Model, Deadlocks Characterization, Methods for Handling Deadlocks,
Deadlock Prevention, Deadlock Avoidance, Deadlock Detection, and Recovery from Deadlock
Process Management and Synchronization - The Critical Section Problem, Synchronization
Hardware, Semaphores, and Classical Problems of Synchronization, Critical Regions, Monitors

UNIT – IV
Interprocess Communication Mechanisms: IPC between processes on a single computer
system, IPC between processes on different systems, using pipes, FIFOs, message queues, shared
memory implementation in linux. Corresponding system calls.

Memory Management and Virtual Memory - Logical versus Physical Address Space, Swapping,
Contiguous Allocation, Paging, Segmentation, Segmentation with Paging, Demand Paging, Page
Replacement, Page Replacement Algorithms.

UNIT - V
File System Interface and Operations -Access methods, Directory Structure, Protection, File System
Structure, Allocation methods, kernel support for files, system calls for file I/O operations open,
create, read, write, close, lseek, stat, ioctl.Disk Management: Disk Scheduling Algorithms-FCFS, SSTF,
SCAN, C-SCAN
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Beginning Linux Programming –Neil Mathew,Richard Stones 4th Edition,Wiley
2. Operating System Principles- Abraham Silberchatz, Peter B. Galvin, Greg Gagne 7 th
Edition,John Wiley
3. Unix System Programming using C++, T.Chan,PHI.
4. Unix Concepts and Applications, 4th Edition, SumitabhaDas,TMH,2006.
5. Advanced programming in the UNIX environment, W.R. Stevens, Pearson education.

REFERENCE BOOKS:
1. Operating Systems – Internals and Design Principles Stallings, Fifth Edition–2005,
Pearson Education/PHI
2. Operating System A Design Approach- Crowley, TMH.
3. Modern Operating Systems, Andrew S. Tanenbaum 2 nd edition, Pearson/PHI
4. UNIX programming environment, Kernighan and Pike, PHI/ Pearson Education
5. UNIX Internals -The New Frontiers, U. Vahalia, Pearson Education.

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