Operating systems : Internals and design principles / William Stallings.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Singapore : Pearson Education, 2001.Edition: 4thDescription: xviii, 779 p; 24 cmContent type:
  • Text
Media type:
  • Unmediated
Carrier type:
  • Volume
ISBN:
  • 981-4096-15-6
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • 005.43 St16
Contents:
Part one: Background. Computer system overview -- Operating system overview -- Part two: Processes. Process description and control -- Threads, SMP, and microkernels -- Concurrency: mutual exclusion and synchronization -- Concurrency: deadlock and starvation -- Part three: Memory. Memory management -- Virtual memory -- Part four: Scheduling. Uniprocessor scheduling -- Multiprocessor and real-time scheduling -- Part five: Input/output and files -- File management -- Part six: Distributed systems. Distributed processing, client/server, and clusters -- Distributed process management -- Part seven: Security. Computer security.
Summary: Blending theory with broad coverage of fundamentals, this text offers a treatment of operating systems, with an emphasis on internals and design issues. The book provides a discussion of the fundamentals of operating system design and relates these principles to contemporary design issues.
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Part one: Background. Computer system overview -- Operating system overview -- Part two: Processes. Process description and control -- Threads, SMP, and microkernels -- Concurrency: mutual exclusion and synchronization -- Concurrency: deadlock and starvation -- Part three: Memory. Memory management -- Virtual memory -- Part four: Scheduling. Uniprocessor scheduling -- Multiprocessor and real-time scheduling -- Part five: Input/output and files -- File management -- Part six: Distributed systems. Distributed processing, client/server, and clusters -- Distributed process management -- Part seven: Security. Computer security.

Blending theory with broad coverage of fundamentals, this text offers a treatment of operating systems, with an emphasis on internals and design issues. The book provides a discussion of the fundamentals of operating system design and relates these principles to contemporary design issues.

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