Systems Programming (Semester 1, 2012)

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Course Content

Below you find the preliminary lecture timetable. The information you find here will certainly change often, so please check back here regularly.

Lecture Week	Online Reading and Exercise Material	Example Code
1 LectureCapture Material Overview Computer Systems	C Programming Tutorial Version Control with Subversion Make Utility Manual	Hello World A simple Hello World program in C to get you started
2 LectureCapture Material Operating Systems	Tutorial for getopt() C File I/O tutorial	ArgTest A simple program that shows how to get command line parameters using argc and argv LongLine A program that shows how to use malloc(), free(), and realloc() to read long lines.
3 LectureCapture Material Processes	The Linux Operating System The Unix Operating System	SysTest A simple program that shows how to use system()
4 Threads	Using GNU's GDB Debugger DDD – a Graphical Front-End to GDB	pipe example An example program that shows how to use pipe() and dup2() for redirection of stdin and stdout.
5 LectureCapture Material Synchronisation	Unix Pipes (Wikipedia) Pipes Chapter in Beej's Guide to Unix IPC	readline test An example program that shows how to use readline() for command line editing.
6 LectureCapture Material Deadlocks	Multi-Threaded Programming With POSIX Threads (original document on the web)	Hello Thread An example program that shows how to use pthread_create() and pthread_join() for creating and waiting for threads.
7 LectureCapture Material Memory Management	UNIX System Threads Reference Dispatch Queues Replacing Threads with Dispatch Queues	GCD Producer/ Consumer An example program that shows how to implement the Producer/Consumer example using Grand Central Dispatch.
8 LectureCapture Material Virtual Memory	Using MPI: Portable Parallel Programming With the Message-passing Interface
9 LectureCapture Material Scheduling	Scheduler Activations NetBSD 5 Scheduling
10 LectureCapture Material Real Time Systems I/O Scheduling	Disk I/O Components Linux System Calls
11 LectureCapture Material Disk Caching and File Management	OpenBSD File System HowTo Toward a Compatible Filesystem Interface
12 LectureCapture Material Embedded Systems	eCos TinyOS
13 Course Review
15 Exam	Past Exams

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Change $Date: Mon Apr 23 07:17:46 2012 +1000 $ by Rene Hexel

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03/04/2012

Assignment 2 is now available!

27/02/2012

Assignment 1 is now available!

25/02/2012

Please note that labs start in week 1