Study Guide
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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
Starred Questions
- Five state process diagram
- Components of a Process
- Virtual Memory Process
- Process Control Block
- VonNeumann
Important Concepts
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
Book Code
Assignment Stuff
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?
- 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...

