An Introduction to Operating Systems: Concepts and practice
- 3rd
- New Delhi PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd. 2010
- 800
In this substantially revised third edition, the text offers a comprehensive treatment of operating systems. While Unix and Windows are covered in good detail, this edition emphasises changes that have occurred in design technology and pattern of use. The new edition comes with focus on Linux kernel, VxWorks and operating systems for handheld systems. These changes make the book contemporary. A set of mini-projects have been incorporated to help students to put to practice the mechanisms that they have learned. The new chapters and appendices added to some chapters together with modification to existing chapters covers topics that are part of the evolving curriculum requirments of most universities at the undergraduate level.
Contents Introduction to Operating Systems File systems and management Process and Process Management Memory Management Input Output (IO) Management Resource Sharing and Management Interprocess Communication Distributed Computing Real-Time Operating Systems and Microkernels OS and Security Recent Trends in OS Unix Primer Search and Sort Tools AWK Tool in Unix Shell Scripts in Unix Programming with Threads Unix Kernel Architecture Make Tool in Unix Some other Tool in Unix Source Code Control System in Unix X-Windows in Unix System Administration in Unix Linux Windows Operating Systems Vista Operating System VxWorks Operating System Operating Systems for Handheld Systems Case Studies and Project Ideas