02152 Concurrent Systems        Fall 2008
Monday, October 27

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Building 308, Auditorium 12

8.15-10.50	Introduction to Operating Systems Process Management [Some slides (ps)(pdf)] Memory Management [Some slides (ps)(pdf)] Virtual Memory
	Inter-Process Communication (IPC) [Some slides (ps)(pdf)]

Building 306, Rooms 98+99

10.00-12.00

CP Exercise Class 6 (deadlocks and message passing) (ps)(pdf)

Texts and exercises

Today	You may read [Andrews 6] (if not already done so) to get the overall idea of kernel operations
Coming	Remote operations: [Andrews 8]
Exercises	None

Remarks

The lectures on Operating Systems are survey lectures touching upon topics which are relevant for concurrent and network programming.

No compulsory texts on operating systems will be given in this course.

You may find references to standard OS text books under the supplementary material.

You can also find much OS-material on Wikipedia.

Relevant material and links

An article explaining the details of the Linux bug allowing a user process to get access to kernel data.

Hans Henrik Løvengreen, Oct 27, 2008