Study Material, Topics and Sections

November 29 by Bina

Worked out review material.

1. Process Concurrency
   fork() call is included
   Process creation, concurrent execution, mutual execution,
   Xinu thread creation, semaphores for synchronization and mutual exclusion
   Pthread model of concurrency
2. Signals and Alarms
   Unix signals and alarms
   Define signals, handler, arm and invoke
   
3. Inter-process Communication
   Pipe() system call and establishing commuication among processes
   
4. XINU System
   XINU architecture (class diagram), adding a shell command, concurrency, semaphores
   
5. Device driver
   Designing and implementing a device driver; XINU example
   
6. Data-driven and control-driven code
   Problem statement, state diagram, table-driven (data-driven) and function-driven(Control-driven) solutions See the xinu lab cyclic executive implementation.
7. Memory Management
   Memory leaks, memory misuse in the context of pointers
   
8. Use case modeling
   Analyze a problem using a UML use-case model.

How to prepare?

Start with the Lecture tab of course web page. Attend lectures for sample questions.