Operating System Concepts

✍ Scribed by Abraham Silberschatz, Peter B. Galvin, Greg Gagne

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 982
• Edition: 8
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Keep pace with the fast-developing world of operating systems Open-source operating systems, virtual machines, and clustered computing are among the leading fields of operating systems and networking that are rapidly changing. With substantial revisions and organizational changes, Silberschatz, Galvin, and Gagne’s Operating System Concepts, Eighth Edition remains as current and relevant as ever, helping you master the fundamental concepts of operating systems while preparing yourself for today’s emerging developments. As in the past, the text brings you up to speed on core knowledge and skills, including: * What operating systems are, what they do, and how they are designed and constructed * Process, memory, and storage management * Protection and security * Distributed systems * Special-purpose systems Beyond the basics, the Eight Edition sports substantive revisions and organizational changes that clue you in to such cutting-edge developments as open-source operating systems, multi-core processors, clustered computers, virtual machines, transactional memory, NUMA, Solaris 10 memory management, Sun’s ZFS file system, and more. New to this edition is the use of a simulator to dynamically demonstrate several operating system topics. Best of all, a greatly enhanced WileyPlus, a multitude of new problems and programming exercises, and other enhancements to this edition all work together to prepare you enter the world of operating systems with confidence.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
......Page 1
Preface
......Page 5
Contents......Page 13
Part One - Overview......Page 19
Introduction......Page 21
System structures
......Page 63
Part Two - Process Management......Page 113
Process concepts......Page 115
Multithreaded Programming......Page 167
Process Scheduling
......Page 197
Part Three - Process Coordination......Page 237
Synchrozination
......Page 239
Deadlocks......Page 297
Part Four - Memory Management
......Page 327
Memory Management Strategies
......Page 329
Virtual Memory Management
......Page 371
Part Five - Storage Management......Page 433
File System
......Page 435
Implementing File Systems......Page 475
Secondary-Storage Structure
......Page 519
I/O Systems
......Page 569
Part Six - Protection and Security
......Page 603
System Protection
......Page 605
System Security
......Page 633
Part Seven - Distributed Systems
......Page 683
Distributed Operating Systems
......Page 685
Distributed File Systems
......Page 717
Distributed Synchrozination
......Page 739
Part Eight - Special Purpose Systems
......Page 769
Real Time Systems
......Page 771
Multimedia Systems
......Page 791
Part Nine - Case Studies......Page 811
The Linux System
......Page 813
Windows XP
......Page 859
Influential Operating Systems
......Page 915
Bibliography......Page 933
Credits......Page 951
Index......Page 953