Basic Principles Of An Operating System

A basic guide to learn Design and Programming of operating system in depth DESCRIPTION Ê An operating system is an essential component of computers, laptops, smartphones and any other devices that manages the computer hardware. This book is a complete textbook that includes theory, implementation, case studies, a lot of review questions, questions from GATE and some smart tips. Many examples and diagrams are given in the book to explain the concepts. It will help increase the readability and understand the concepts. The book is divided into 11 chapters. It describe the basics of an operating system, how it manages the computer hardware, Application Programming interface, compiling, linking, and loading. It talks about how communication takes place between two processes, the different methods of communication, the synchronization between two processes, and modern tools of synchronization. It covers deadlock and various methods to handle deadlock. It also describes the memory and virtual memory organization and management, file system organization and implementation, secondary storage structure, protection and security. KEY FEATURES Easy to read and understand Covers the topic in-depth Good explanation of concepts with relevant diagrams and examples Contains a lot of review questions to understand the concepts Clarification of concepts using case studies The book will help to achieve a high confidence level and thus ensure high performance of the reader WHAT WILL YOU LEARN The proposed book will be very simple to read, understand and provide sound knowledge of basic concepts. It is going to be a complete book that includes theo implementation, case studies, a lot of review questions, questions from GATE and some smart tips. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR BCA, BSc (IT/CS), MTech (IT/CSE), BTech (CSE/IT), MBA (IT), MCA, BBA (CAM), DOEACC, MSc (IT/CS/SE), MPhil, PGDIT, PGDBM. Ê Table of Contents 1.Ê Ê Ê Introduction and Structure of an Operating System 2.Ê Ê Ê Operating System Services 3.Ê Ê Ê Process Management 4.Ê Ê Ê Inter Process Communication and Process Synchronization 5.Ê Ê Ê Deadlock 6.Ê Ê Ê Memory Organization and Management 7.Ê Ê Ê Virtual Memory Organization 8.Ê Ê Ê File System Organization and Implementation 9.Ê Ê Ê Secondary Storage Structure 10.Ê Protection and Security 11.Ê Case Study

The main theme of the book is that operating systems are not radically different from other programs. The difficulties encountered in the design of efficient, reliable operating systems are the same as those one encounters in the design of other large programs, such as compilers or payroll programs. This book tries to give students of computer science and professional programmers a general understanding of operating systems - the programs that enable people to share computers efficiently.

Principles of Operating Systems is an in-depth look at the internals of operating systems. It includes chapters on general principles of process management, memory management, I/O device management, and file systems. Each major topic area also includes a chapter surveying the approach taken by nine examples of operating systems. Setting this book apart are chapters that examine in detail selections of the source code for the Inferno operating system and the Linux operating system.

Over the past two decades, there has been a huge amount of innovation in both the principles and practice of operating systems Over the same period, the core ideas in a modern operating system - protection, concurrency, virtualization, resource allocation, and reliable storage - have become widely applied throughout computer science. Whether you get a job at Facebook, Google, Microsoft, or any other leading-edge technology company, it is impossible to build resilient, secure, and flexible computer systems without the ability to apply operating systems concepts in a variety of settings. This book examines the both the principles and practice of modern operating systems, taking important, high-level concepts all the way down to the level of working code. Because operating systems concepts are among the most difficult in computer science, this top to bottom approach is the only way to really understand and master this important material.

This text is designed for one-semester, undergraduate courses introducing operating systems and principles of operating systems in the departments of computer science and engineering, and information and computer science.

Includes coverage of OS design. This title provides a chapter on real time and embedded systems. It contains a chapter on multimedia. It presents coverage of security and protection and additional coverage of distributed programming. It contains exercises at the end of each chapter.