CS3431 Operating Systems and Data Management Winter 1999

• Instructor: Ken Mackenzie, kenmac at cc.gatech.edu, office hours (see below) in CoC 219.
• TA: Ed Shrum, eds at cc.gatech.edu, office hours MW11-12 in the CoC common area.
• TA: Rebecca Lee Yount, rly at cc.gatech.edu, office hours M3-4, T11-12 in the CoC common area.
• Class meetings: there are two sections, A and B: (lecture notes)
  • A Lecture: TR12-1:30 in Bunger-Henry, room 311.
  • A Discussion: W12-1 in CoC, room 17.
  • B Lecture: TR1:30-3 in Bunger-Henry, room 360.
  • B Discussion: W2-3 in CoC, room 17.
• Text: Silberschatz and Galvin, Operating System Concepts, Addison-Wesley, 1998 (5th Edition).
• Syllabus: syllabus.ps, syllabus.pdf
• News: git.cc.class.3431

• 13-Mar-99: Project 2 solutions are on-line, midterm solutions are on-line, and the lecture notes (including a B+ tree example are up-to-date. The final is CLOSED BOOK; You may bring TWO 8.5"x11" (doublesided) sheets of notes.
• 10-Mar-99: Improved error messages in testfs.c for Project 2
• 5-Mar-99: Homework 2 solutions on-line, also the lecture notes are up to date.
• 12-Feb-99: Too-late-but-maybe-useful-in-some-other-class: An Introduction to Programming with Threads
• 6-Feb-99: The midterm is CLOSED BOOK; You may bring one 8.5"x11" (doublesided) sheet of notes.
• 6-Feb-99: Project 1 solutions on-line.
• 28-Jan-99: Homework 1 solutions on-line, including code for bounded buffers (see below).
• 23-Jan-99: More notes for Homework 1.
• 20-Jan-99: The homework 1 due date is now Tuesday, 26-Jan-99.
• 15-Jan-99: BUGS: added some notes for Homework 1 and a revised version of the pthreads appendix to Project 1.

         date topic           read   | date | date  topic         read    due
         ---- -----           ----   | ---- | ----  -----         ----    ---
 (Jan)     5  History         ch1    |   6  |   7  Structures     ch2/3  (hw0)
          12  Processes       ch4    |  13  |  14  Scheduling     ch5
          19  Scheduling      ch5    |  20  |  21  Synch.         ch6
          26  Mutexes  (hw1)  ch7    |  27  |  28  Deadlock       ch7         
 (Feb)     2  Deadlock        ch7    |   3  |   4  Review               (prj1)
           9  (midterm)              |  10  |  11  Virtual Memory ch8       
          16  Virtual Memory  ch9    |  17  |  18  Virtual Memory ch10
          23  File systems    ch11   |  24  |  25  File systems   ch11   (hw2)
 (Mar)     2  File systems    --     |   3  |   4  Databases      --    (prj2)
           9  Protection      ch15   |  10  |  11  Review                      
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• Lecture notes.
• General handouts:
  1. Syllabus: .ps, .pdf (posted 5-Jan-99)
• Homework:
  • Photo page (homework 0): .ps, .pdf (posted 5-Jan-99)
  1. Homework 1: .ps, .pdf (posted 12-Jan-99), some notes (15-Jan-99), more notes (23-Jan-99), Solutions: .ps, .pdf plus two bounded-buffer implementations bb1.c, bb2.c (28-Jan-99)
  2. Homework 2: .ps, .pdf (posted 14-Feb-99), Solutions: .ps, .pdf (4-Mar-99)
• Projects:
  1. Synchronization and Deadlock
  2. File System Implementation
• Exams:
  • Midterm (Average was 68, standard deviation was 12), solutions
  • Final

  Time      Mon     Tues    Wed    Thurs    Fri
  -----   ------- ------- ------- ------- -------
  8-9     
  9-10
  10-11
  11-N      Ed    Rebecca  Ed
  N-1             Lec-A.. Disc-A  Lec-A..
  1-2             .../...  Ken    .../...
  2-3             ..Lec-B Disc-B  ..Lec-B
  3-4     Rebecca  Ken     Ken     Ken
  4-5

TAs meet in CoC common area
Ken's office is CoC 219
Lecture in Bunger-Henry, room 311 (A) or room 360 (B).
Discussion in CoC, room 17.