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Contents 1 2 Useful Links 3 Starred Questions 4 Important Concepts 5 Chapter Questions 6 Chapter Vocabulary 7 Book Code 8 Assignment Stuff 9 Questions from the Midterm

Useful Links

http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/C/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-8ceLiMuEA

http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/output/html/singlepage/bgnet.html

• Pthreads Tutorial

Starred Questions

• Five state process diagram
• Components of a Process
• Virtual Memory Process
• Process Control Block
• VonNeumann

Important Concepts

• Gantt Charts
• Deadlocks
• Mutexes and Semaphores
• Threading
• Context Switch
• Pointer Arithmetic
• MakeFile

Chapter Questions

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Operating-System Structures
• Chapter 3: Processes
• Chapter 4: Threads
• Chapter 5: CPU Scheduling
• Chapter 6: Process Synchronization
• Chapter 7: Deadlocks

Chapter Vocabulary

• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7

Book Code

• Thread Example
• Thread Forking Example
• Signal Example
• Fork Example

Assignment Stuff

• Assignment 1
• Assignment 2
• Assignment 3

Questions from the Midterm

• 1. Draw and label the "Five state process diagram", adding the information from class on each edge.

• 2. Describe, in some detail, the three major Components of a Process.

• 3. What is the difference between a function call and a system call?

• 4. Describe a very specific application where threading on a multiprocessor machine would be unlikely to provide any speed up. Give your reason for the lack of a speed up.

• 5. List the most common IPC facilities and provide a SINGLE sentence describing their most common use.

• 6. Assuming object files .o are to be used to link an executable p, and the following... Make File

• 7. Write a complete C function my_popen() that acts like a popen() library function...