Class Lectures and Reading Assignments
CS 59000-01
Operating Systems
Spring, 2015

This page documents what we do in class. It contains C programs that we will discuss in class, reading assignments from our textbook, simple homework exercises that you can work on for practice and exam preparation (not for credit), links to other sources of information, etc.

The reading assignments and practice problems are listed by the date on which they were assigned. The sample program files are listed by the date on which they were used. When you are viewing a source code page, you can use your browser's "File -> Save As..." menu item to save a copy of the code on your computer. It is a good idea for you to "play" with these example programs; compile them, run them, make simple changes to them and compile and run them again.

Tuesday, April 28. There will be a final exam next week on Tuesday, May 5, at 6:00pm. Here is a file that contains sample questions for the exam. CS59000-Final-Review.txt Thursday, April 23. NOTE: No class today. I have to take a trip out of town. Tuesday, April 21. See the homework page for your sixth assignment. Read Chapter 5, Sections 5.1 - 5.5.3 (pages 139-155) from our textbook. Tuesday, April 14. Read Chapter 10, Section 10.6 (pages 336-347) from our textbook. Tuesday, April 7. See the homework page for your fifth assignment. Read Chapter 10, Sections 10.1-10.5 (pages 321-336) from our textbook. Thursday, March 26. Read Chapter 9, Sections 9.1-9.4 (pages 283-301) from our textbook. Tuesday, March 17. Read Chapter 8, Sections 8.5-8.7 (pages 272-282) from our textbook. This chapter is available online. Chapter 8. Processes and Programs: Studying sh Thursday, March 12. Spring break. Tuesday, March 10. Spring break. Thursday, March 5. See the homework page for your fourth assignment. Tuesday, March 3. Read Chapter 8, Sections 8.1-8.4 (pages 249-271) from our textbook. This chapter is available online. Chapter 8. Processes and Programs: Studying sh Read the chapters on processes from Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces. Chapter 4 Processes Chapter 5 Process API Chapter 5 Sample code Thursday, February 26. Read Chapter 4, Sections 4.4 - 4.6 (pages 119-138) from our textbook. From Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces, read Chapter 40 File System Implementation Tuesday, February 17. See the homework page for your third assignment. Read Chapter 4, Sections 4.1 - 4.3 (pages 107-119) from our textbook. From Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces, read Chapter 39 File and Directories Here is an example program that demonstrates ALL the possible ways to pass data structures into and out of C functions (it's also in the code.zip file). data-structures-and-functions.c Thursday, February 12. Read Chapter 3, Section 3.6 (pages 80-95) from our textbook. This section implements the "ls -l" command Read Chapter 39 File and Directories from Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces Read Appendix B2 and B6 from Advanced Linux Programming Tuesday, February 10. Read Chapter 3, Sections 3.1 - 3.5 (pages 71-80) from our textbook. These sections implement a basic ls command Here are solutions to homework assignment 1. hw1-soln.zip Tuesday, February 3. We talked in class about linking object files. Here are two references. Linking explained with diagrams Linking from CS:APP2e If you want to review the idea of a "system call", read the first six pages of the following section from Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces. Mechanism: Limited Direct Execution Thursday, January 29. See the homework page for your second assignment. Read Chapter 2, Sections 2.7 - 2.10 (pages 55-70) from our textbook. Section 2.7 adds buffering to the who command Thursday, January 22. Read Chapter 2, Section 2.6 (pages 51-55) from our textbook. This section implements the cp command. Read Chapter 5: Structured Data Types from OnToC.pdf Read Section B1 (pages 1 - 10) and Section B4 (page 15) from the following appendix to Advanced Linux Programming. These pages describe the native Linux library file functions (as apposed to the C Standard Library file functions). Appendix B - Low Level I/O Tuesday, January 20. Read Chapter 2, Sections 2.1 - 2.5 (pages 30-51) from our textbook. These sections implement the who command Here are the code examples from chapters 1 - 4 of the textbook. code.zip Read Tutorials 1, 2, and 3 from the following page. Unix Tutorial for Beginners Read Tutorials 2, and 3 from the following page. You can also download the nelle directory that they use for their examples. The Unix Shell from Software Carpentry nelle.zip Tuesday, January 13. Be sure to look at the homework assignment page. Your first assignment is already listed there. Read Chapter 1 from our textbook. This chapter is available online. Chapter 1. Unix Systems Programming: The Big Picture Important You need to get an account on Purdue Cal's Linux cluster. We will use it as an example Linux system. Log into Purdue's "research account management tool" using your Purdue career account. When you are asked for a "research group name", use "Purdue Calumet". In the textbox for comments, put "CS 59000-01 Professor Kraft". Then click the "Submit Request" button, and we will see what happens. Try using your Purdue career account to log onto the Unix system mentioned for students on the following page. Unix Account Here is a nice overview of C from Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces. Laboratory: Tutorial If you want to review the basic ideas from Operating Systems, read this section from Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces. Introduction to Operating Systems The following zip file contains sample code. c-programs.zip