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 The MINIX Book: Operating Systems: Design & Implementation 3rd Edition
  

  The MINIX Book: Operating Systems: Design & Implementation 3rd Edition by Albert S. Woodhull ; Andrew S. Tanenbaum

  • Published by: PRENTICE-HALL
  • Author: Albert S. Woodhull ; Andrew S. Tanenbaum
  • Page Count: 1030
  • Group: OPERATING SYSTEMS
  • ISBN: 0131429388/9780131429383
  • Published: Jan 2006

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The MINIX Book: Operating Systems: Design & Implementation 3rd Edition
“The presentation is excellent. The book should be on the desk of any serious student of operating systems.”--Dr. Samuel Kohn, Thomas Edison State College

  “I would give the authors very high grades for their writing style. Topics are explained in a clear and understandable manner. Presentations are well organized and they flow in logical fashion. The book provides the right depth and breadth of explanations with the appropriate amount of rigor and abstraction.” --Gojko Babic, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ohio State University

  The definitive, up-to-date introduction to operating systems:

  Core principles plus hands-on examples with the new MINIX 3 operating system

  The world’s best-selling introductory operating systems text has been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest advances in OS design and implementation. Offering an optimal balance of theory and practice, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, Third Edition remains the best resource for anyone seeking a deep understanding of how operating systems work.

  This edition includes MINIX 3, more compact, more reliable, better suited for embedded applications – and, above all, even easier to teach and learn from. Using MINIX, the authors introduce virtually every core concept needed to construct a working OS: system calls, processes, IPC, scheduling, I/O, deadlocks, memory management, threads, file systems, security, and more.

  NEW TO THIS EDITION

  · Newly-released, significantly-improved MINIX 3 operating system on CD-ROM: giving students hands-on experience in modifying and rebuilding a contemporary operating system

  · Expanded and reorganized coverage of processes and communication

  · Revised and enhanced coverage of CPU scheduling, deadlocks, file system reliability, and security

  · Includes more than 150 end of chapter problems

  · ABOUT THE AUTHORS

  Andrew S. Tanenbaum has an S.B. degree from M.I.T. and a Ph. D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He is currently a Professor of Computer Science and Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where, for more than 30 years, he has taught operating systems, computer organization, and networking to thousands of students. Professor Tanenbaum is the winner of the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award and the ACM/SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education.

  Albert S. Woodhull is Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer Science and Biology at the School of Natural Science, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA. He also served until recently as computer system administrator for the Department of Biology in the School of Natural Science and Mathematics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. He holds an S.B. degree from M.I.T. and a Ph.D. the University of Washington. Supported by a Fulbright grant, he has taught at the Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria and the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Nicaragua.

CONTENTS:

Table of Contents CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 WHAT IS AN OPERATING SYSTEM?

  1.2 HISTORY OF OPERATING SYSTEMS

  1.3 OPERATING SYSTEM CONCEPTS

  1.4 SYSTEM CALLS

  1.5 OPERATING SYSTEM STRUCTURE

  1.6 OUTLINE OF THE REST OF THIS BOOK

  1.7 SUMMARY

CHAPTER 2 PROCESSES 2.1 INTRODUCTION TO PROCESSES

  2.2 INTERPROCESS COMMUNICATION

  2.3 CLASSICAL IPC PROBLEMS

  2.4 SCHEDULING

  2.5 OVERVIEW OF PROCESSES IN MINIX 3

  2.6 IMPLEMENTATION OF PROCESSES IN MINIX 3

  2.7 THE SYSTEM TASK IN MINIX 3

  2.8 THE CLOCK TASK IN MINIX 3

  2.9 SUMMARY

CHAPTER 3 INPUT/OUTPUT 3.1 PRINCIPLES OF I/O HARDWARE

  3.2 PRINCIPLES OF I/O SOFTWARE

  3.3 DEADLOCKS

  3.4 OVERVIEW OF I/O IN MINIX 3

  3.5 BLOCK DEVICES IN MINIX 3

  3.6 RAM DISKS

  3.7 DISKS

  3.8 TERMINALS

  3.9 SUMMARY

CHAPTER 4 MEMORY MANAGEMENT 4.1 BASIC MEMORY MANAGEMENT

  4.2 SWAPPING

  4.3 VIRTUAL MEMORY

  4.4 PAGE REPLACEMENT ALGORITHMS

  4.5 DESIGN ISSUES FOR PAGING SYSTEMS

  4.6 SEGMENTATION

  4.7 OVERVIEW OF THE MINIX 3 PROCESS MANAGER

  4.8 IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MINIX 3 PROCESS MANAGER

  4.9 SUMMARY

CHAPTER 5 FILE SYSTEMS 5.1 FILES

  5.2 DIRECTORIES

  5.3 FILE SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION

  5.4 SECURITY

  5.5 PROTECTION MECHANISMS

  5.6 OVERVIEW OF THE MINIX 3 FILE SYSTEM

  5.7 IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MINIX 3 FILE SYSTEM

  5.8 SUMMARY

CHAPTER 6 READING LIST AND BIBLIOGRAPHY 6.1 SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING

  6.2 ALPHABETICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

APPENDIX A - INSTALLING MINIX 3 APPENDIX B - MINIX 3 SOURCE CODE LISTING APPENDIX C - INDEX TO FILES INDEX