William Stallings

William Stallings

Prentice Hall | 832 pages | PDF | 19,2 MB

For a one-semester undergraduate course in operating systems for computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering majors.

This text covers concepts, structure, and mechanisms of operating systems. Stallings presents the nature and characteristics of modern-day operating systems clearly and completely.



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PREFACE

PART ONE: BACKGROUND
1. Computer System Overview

2. Operating System Overview

PART TWO: PROCESSES
3. Process Description and Control

4. Threads, SMP, and Microkernels

5. Concurrency: Mutual Exclusion and Synchronization

6. Concurrency: Deadlock and Starvation







PART THREE: MEMORY
7. Memory Management

8. Virtual Memory

PART FOUR: SCHEDULING
9. Uniprocessor Scheduling

10. Multiprocessor and Real-Time Scheduling

PART FIVE: INPUT/OUTPUT AND FILES
11. I/O Management and Disk Scheduling

12. File Management

PART SIX: DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
13. Distributed Processing, Client/Server, and Clusters

14. Distributed Process Management

PART SEVEN: SECURITY
15. Computer Security

Appendix 15A Encryption