CONTENTS

1. Introduction

1. Introduction to Operating System 

2. Operating System Structure  

3. Virtual Machine  

4. System Boot

2. Process Management

1. Introduction

2. Process Concept  

3. Process Scheduling

4. Operations on Processes

5. Inter-Process Communication

3. Multithreaded Programming   

1. Overview    

2. Multithreading Models  

3. Thread Libraries

4. Process Scheduling

1. Introduction

2. Basic Concepts   

3. Process Scheduling

4. Scheduling Algorithms  

5. Thread Scheduling

5. Process Synchronization

1. Background  

2. Critical Section Problem    

3. Synchronization Hardware    

4. Semaphores  

5. Classic Problem of Synchronization

6. Deadlocks   

1. Introduction

2. System Model

3. Deadlock Characterization   

4. Deadlock Prevention    

5. Deadlock Avoidance

6. Deadlock Detection 28

7. Recovery from Deadlock

7. Memory Management

1. Introduction

2. Background  

3. Swapping    

4. Contiguous Memory Allocation

5. Paging 

6. Segmentation

7. Virtual Memory Management

8. File System 

1. File Concept

2. Access Methods   

3. Directory Structure    

4. Allocation Methods

5. Free Space Management