9786202513029: Modern Operating Systems

Synopsis

The book contains: Evolution of Operating Systems: Types of operating systems - Different views of the operating systems – Principles of Design and Implementation. The process concept – system programmer’s view of processes – operating system’s views of processes – operating system services for process management. Process scheduling – Schedulers – Scheduling Algorithms. Structural overview, Concept of process and Process synchronization, Process Management and Scheduling, Hardware requirements: protection, context switching, privileged mode; Threads and their Management; Tools and Constructs for Concurrency, Detection and Prevention of deadlocks, Mutual Exclusion: Algorithms, semaphores – concurrent programming using semaphores.

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