Contact Info

Email: rick@cs.washington.edu
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Notes

Section 02 - 04/11/2002 (Processes, Loaders, Fork, and Exec)
Section 05 - 05/02/2002 (Synchronization)
Section 08 - 05/22/2002 (File Systems: On Disk Data Structures)
Section 09 - 05/30/2002 (Linux VFS/Buffer Manager)
Section 10 - 06/06/2002 (Jeopardy) PS, PDF

Quizes

Quiz 2 Solutions (Mapping Functions) PS, PDF
Quiz 8 Solutions (Disk Block Transfer Times) PS, PDF
Quiz 9 Solutions (UFS Access Times) PS, PDF

Other Information

UW ACM UNIX tutorials
UNIXhelp for Users a beginning UNIX user's help site.
A Makefile Tutorial
A shorter Makefile Tutorial
The official manual for GNU make
A GDB tutorial
Another GDB tutorial with sample usage
A reference on C function pointers (needed for sthread_create).

Advanced Topics/Optional Material

I'll try and post some material here that you may be interested in (but will not be tested on). Also feel free to mail me (rick) or come by my office hours if you want to discuss material we cover in more depth.

The UNIX Family Tree (a diagram of showing how various versions of UNIX are derived from the original).
An in-depth discussion of bootloaders on the Intel x86 architecture.
Scheduler Activations, a general solution to the problems with either user-level or kernel-level threads (plus, developed by Anderson, Bershad, Lazowska, and Levy).
FreeBSD's Kernel-Secheduled Entities, an implementation of Scheduler Activations that will be in FreeBSD 5.0
Application Controlled Physical Memory Just as Scheduler Activations (above) gives applications control over the scheduling policy, ACPM gives applications control over the page allocation policy.
Linux Kernel NFS Daemon A clear description of the kernel-based NFS implementation for Linux.