CPS 445: Systems Programming II Lecture notes

1. Fundamentals ([USP] Preface, Ch1-7):
   1. introduction, course outline, programs, processes, and threads ([USP] Preface, Ch1-2)
   2. processes in UNIX (fork, wait, and exec; [USP] Ch3)
   3. UNIX I/O (read, write, poll, and select; [USP] Ch4)
   4. files and directories (inodes; hard and symbolic links; [USP] Ch5)
   5. UNIX special files (pipes & FIFOs; [USP] §§6.1-6.5)
   6. terminals ([USP] §6.5) and terminal control ([USP] §6.6)
   7. the token ring [Robbins & Robbins' Process Ring Simulator User's Guide] ([USP] Ch7)
   
   
2. Asynchronous events ([USP] Ch8-9,11):
   1. signals ([USP] Ch8)
   2. command shells ([USP] Ch11)
   3. times ([USP] §§9.1-9.2)
   4. timers ([USP] §§9.3-9.7)
   
   
3. Concurrency ([USP] Ch12-14)
   1. POSIX threads ([USP] Ch12)
   2. thread synchronization ([USP] Ch13)
   3. critical sections and semaphores ([USP] Ch14)

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References

[CPL]	B.W. Kernighan and D.M. Ritchie. The C Programming Language. Prentice Hall, Second edition, 1988.
[UPE]	B.W. Kernighan and R. Pike. The UNIX Programming Environment. Prentice Hall, Second edition, 1984.
[USP]	K.A. Robbins and S. Robbins. UNIX Systems Programming: Concurrency, Communication, and Threads. Prentice Hall, Second edition, 2003.