Computer Science 432/563
Operating Systems

Spring 2016, The College of Saint Rose

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Agenda

• Announcements
  • Happy Leap Year Day!
  • You should all sign up for the programming contest
  • Programming Project 2: CPU Scheduler Simulation continues
    • coding should be in, writeups due Wednesday night - please feel free to generate stats with my simulator if you don't trust yours
  • Lab 3: Concurrency due tonight, nice and short
• Midterm exam information
  • Exam will come out in class 2 weeks from today (first day back from break), March 14
  • May be a short in-class portion (TBD), mostly if not all take home
  • Due back 2 days later, at the start of class on March 16
  • Topics covered are up to today's class
  • Practice questions out
• Lecture 0x0a assignment recap
• Lab 4: Unix Systems Programming out
• Lab 5: knish: The Knight Shell out
• A look at the example code with POSIX semaphores and pthreads mutexes
• Semaphore and mutex implementations (not going to cover in class)
  • POSIX semaphores
  • pthreads mutex
  • System V semaphores
• Monitors

No New Lecture Assignment

Please take a look at the practice exam questions, and we can talk about them on Wednesday.

Examples

• prodcons-pthreads