Operating Systems

1. Introduction
   1. What is an OS?
   2. Files
   3. Kernels
   4. System calls
   5. Process management
2. Processes & Threads
   1. Process model
   2. Interrupt Handling & Scheduling
   3. Signal handling
   4. Threads
   5. Race conditions & mutual exclusion
   6. Scheduling
3. Memory Management
   1. Basics of memory: no abstraction
   2. The Memory Address Space
   3. Virtual memory
   4. Design issues
4. File systems
   1. Files
   2. File system layout
   3. Reliability & Performance
5. I/O
   1. Principles of IO hardware
   2. Principles of IO software
   3. Devices
6. Deadlocks