Operating Systems Labratory: Syllabus

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Prerequisites

An undergraduate-level understanding of operating systems concepts.

Objectives

This course is primarily designed for undergraduate students. In this course you will be learned how to work and administrating unix-like operating systems, system programming , and writing shell scripts. We do not emphasize on using a specific distro of unix-based operating systems, if you are currently working with one of them and you are familiar with using unix-based operating systems , then you are free to use your favorite distro. And if you are not familiar with them , then we will teach you how to start using them. The topics which will be covered are :

• History of Unix and Linux Operating Systems
• Introducing Linux and Unix Distributions
• Bootstrapping Scenario
• File Systems
  • Systems Directories
  • File/Directories Commands
  • Group and User and Ownership Management
  • Premissions
  • Mounting
• Processes Management
  • Forking System
  • Processes Management Commands
  • Foreground and background Processes
  • Signaling and Signal Handeling
  • Inter-Process Communication (IPC)
• Multi-Threading
  • Pthread Programming
• Shell Scripting
  • Key Files
  • Variables
  • Operators
  • Shell Programming

Main References

Our Lectuers are mainly based-on these books.

• Willam Shotts, The Linux Command Line a Complete Introduction, No Starch Press, 2nd ed, 2019.
• Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, and etc, Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook, Addison-Wesley, 5th ed, 2018.
• W. Richard Stevens, Stephen A. Rago, Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment, Addison-Wesley, 3rd ed, 2013.
• Stephen Kochan, Patrick Wood, Shell Programming in Unix, Linux and OS X, Addison-Wesley, 4th ed, 2017.