Sections/Office Hours

Announcements

• If there is anything in particular you'd like covered in section, please let me know and I'll try to include it.

Contact Info

Notes

• Section 03 - 01/24/2002 (Synchronization)
• Midterm 1 Review Questions
• File Systems: On Disk Data Structures

Other Information

• Course Webpage
• UW ACM UNIX tutorials
• UNIXhelp for Users a beginning UNIX user's help site.
• A Makefile Tutorial
• A shorter Makefile Tutorial
• A reference on C function pointers (needed for pthread_create).

Advanced Topics/Optional Material

• The original research paper on the Synthesis kernel (from question 3.16 of HW1): The Synthesis Kernel. Calton Pu, Henry Massalin, and John Ioannidis.
• 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 UW CSE).
• 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.