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Operating systems: internals and design principles / William Stallings.

By: Stallings, William.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c2001Edition: 4th ed.Description: xvii, 779 p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 013032986x (paperback).Subject(s): Operating systems (Computers) | Operating systems | Computers and ITDDC classification: 005.43 STA
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Blending up-to-date theory with modern applications, this text provides a solid understanding of the key mechanisms of operating systems and the types of design trade-offs and decisions involved in designing such systems.

Includes bibliographical references p. [758-769) and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface
  • I Background
  • 1 Computer System Overview
  • 2 Operating System Overview
  • II Processes
  • 3 Process Description and Control
  • 4 Threads, SMP, and Microkernels
  • 5 Concurrency,: Mutual Exclusion, and Synchronization
  • 6 Concurrency: Deadlock and Starvation
  • III Memory
  • 7 Memory Management
  • 8 Virtual Memory
  • IV Scheduling
  • 9 Uniprocessor Scheduling
  • 10 Multiprocessor and Real-Time Scheduling
  • V Input/Output and Files
  • 11 I/O Management and Disk Scheduling
  • 12 File Management
  • VI Distributed Systems
  • 13 Distributed Processing, Client/Server, and Clusters
  • 14 Distributed Process Management
  • VII Security
  • 15 Security
  • Appendix A Queuing Analysis
  • Appendix B Object-Oriented Design
  • Appendix C Programming and Operating System Projects
  • Appendix D OSP: An Environment for Operating System Projects
  • Appendix E BACI: The Ben-Ari Concurrent Programming System
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Index