Operating systems: internals and design principles

Blending up-to-date theory with state-of-the-art applications, this book offers a comprehensive treatment of operating systems, with an emphasis on internals and design issues. It helps readers develop a solid understanding of the key structures and mechanisms of operating systems, the types of trade-offs and decisions involved in OS design, and the context within which the operating system functions (hardware, other system programs, application programs, interactive users). Process Description And Control. Threads, SMP, And Microkernels. Concurrency: Mutual Exclusion And Synchronization. Concurrency: Deadlock And Starvation. Memory Management. Virtual Memory. Uniprocessor Scheduling. Multiprocessor And Real-Time Scheduling. I/O Management And Disk Scheduling. File Management. Distributed Processing, Client/Server, And Clusters. Distributed Process Management. Security. For product development personnel (Programmers, Systems Engineers, Network Designers, and others involved in the design of data communications and networking products), Product marketing personnel, and Information system and computer system personnel. Comprehensive introduction to the nature and characteristics of modern operating systems. Teaches design principles and implementation using Windows NT, Unix and MVS as examples. Introduces object-orientation, expands network and distributed operating system coverage via the client/server architecture paradigm. Focuses on recent developments in security, process migration, threads, multiprocessor scheduling, real-time systems, concurrency, memory, I/O, and file management. Covers all topics in the OS course recommended in Computing Curricula 1991 report of the ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Curriculum Task Force.