Università Roma Tre

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE: CPU, REGISTERS, INSTRUCTIONS, INTERRUPT, MEMORY HIERARCHY, LOCALITY, I/O, PROCEDURE CALLS
MODERN OPERATING SYSTEMS OVERVIEW: DEFINITION OF OPERATING SYSTEM, PURPOSE, LAYERED ARCHITECTURE, KERNEL/USER MODE, MAIN FEATURES
PROCESSES: DISPATCHING, STATES, DESCRIPTION AND CONTROL
MEMORY MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES: PARTITIONING, BEST/FIRST/NEXT FIT, BUDDY ALGORITHM, PAGING, SEGMENTATION

VIRTUAL MEMORY - HARDWARE SUPPORT: OVERVIEW, PAGINATION, MULTILEVEL PAGE TABLES, INVERTED PAGE TABLES, TLB, SEGMENTATION, PAGED SEGMENTS
VIRTUAL MEMORY - OPERATING SYSTEM SUPPORT: VIRTUAL MEMORY AND DISK CACHE, DEMAND PAGING, OPT, LRU, FIFO, CLOCK, AGING, PAGE BUFFERING, RS MANAGEMENT, WORKING SET, PFF, CLEANING POLICY, LOAD CONTROL, PROCESS SUSPENSION

CPU SCHEDULING (SHORT TERM, MID TERM, LONG TERM), CPU SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS : FCFS, RR, VRR, SPN, SRT, FB, COMPARISON, CPU SCHEDULING IN LINUX 2.6

DISK SCHEDULING, RAID

UNIX FILE MANAGEMENT, INODE, LINUX VFS, EXT2

UNIX COMMAND LINE
INTRODUCTION TO LINUX
ON-LINE DOCUMENTATION (MAN, INFO, LESS), FILESYSTEM ORGANIZATION, FIRST COMMANDS (LS, PWD, CD, CAT).
THE SHELL: BASH, PROMPT, INTERNAL AND ESTERNAL COMMANDS, HELP, ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES, ENV, $PATH, EXPORT;
COMMANDS FOR FILE AND DIRECTORY MANAGEMENT: TOUCH, MV, RM, CP, MKDIR, RMDIR
EDITORS E GRAPHICAL ENVIRONMENTS: VI, EMACS, X, WINDOW MANAGER, GNOME, KDE, KWRITE, GEDIT
LINUX AND SHELL: PROCESSES, STATES SLEEPING READY/RUNNING STOPPED, CONTROL TERMINAL, PS, TOP, PSTREE, ^C, ^Z, BACKGROUND PROCESSES, BG, FG, &, KILL, KILL -9, SIGNALS,
SHELL: SUBSTITUTIONS AND EXPANSIONS (BRACE, TILDE, VARIABILES, COMMAND, PATHNAME), WORD SPLITTING,
I/O REDIRECTION: STDIN/OUT/ERR, PIPELINING, FILTERS, SORT, TEE, LESS.
FILTERS: SORT, UNIQ, TR, GREP, WC, HEAD, TAIL AWK
GREP: REGULAR EXPRESSIONS: EXAMPLES AND EXERCISES
AWK: PATTERNS, STATEMENTS, CONTROL FLOW, VARIABILI, $0..$N, FS, OFS, RS, NR, NF, EXAMPLES AND EXERCISES

COMPRESSED FORMATS GZ, BZ2, ZIP, TAR.

SHELL SCRIPTING #!, PARAMETRI, FOR-DO-DONE, SEQ, TEST, IF-ELSE-FI.
STRACE, LTRACE, TIME.
DIFF, PATCH, TAR, GZIP, ZIP, BZIP, STRIP, FIND, STRACE, LTRACE.

C: INTRODUCTION, TOOLCHAIN, PREPROCESSOR DIRECTIVES, DYNAMIC AND STATIC LIBRARIES. COMMANDS: CC, FILE, LDD, OBJDUMP, MAKE GDB
GDB: STEPPING, BREAKPOINTS R, B, L, INFO, N, S, HELP, BT, FRAME, C , P, DISPLAY, QUIT,
BREAKPOINTS: INFO BR, ,DIS, DEL, HIT COUNT, IGNORE, CONDITIONED BREAKPOINTS, WATCHPOINT.

LINUX FILESYSTEM, FDISK -L, MOUNT, STAT, LN, /PROC/DEVICES, FILE RIGHTS, CHMOD

MAKEFILES: RULES, PREDEFINED RULES, VARIABILES.

LINUX BOOT, INIT

EACH YEAR THE PROGRAM CAN SLIGHTLY VARY: SEE THE COURSE WEB PAGE http://www.dia.uniroma3.it/~pizzonia/so

W. STALLINGS, "OPERATING SYSTEMS: INTERNALS AND DESIGN PRINCIPLES", 6TH EDITION. PRENTICE HALL.
DISPENSE DEL DOCENTE DISPONIBILI SUL SITO DEL CORSO
DOCUMENTAZIONE ON-LINE DEI COMANDI UNIX/LINUX INSTALLATI NEL SISTEMA STESSO.