Course Resources

• Syllabus
• Web site for Silberschatz text
• Essential C (Stanford CS Education Library)
• C Primer Plus (Booth Library)
• Beginning C from Novice to Professional (Booth Library)
• Classic Shell Scripting (Booth Library)
• Mac OS X Developer Library: Shell Scripting Primer
• BACI: Mutual Exclusion Toolkit
• Unofficial information on FAT
• Microsoft Hardware White Paper on FAT

Homework Exercises

• Exercise 1 Description  LaTeX source
• Exercise 2 Description  LaTeX source
• Exercise 3 Description
• Exercise 4 Description
• Exercise 5 Description
• Exercise 6 Description
• Exercise 7 Description
• Exercise 8 Description
• Exercise 9 Description  ab.cm  ab-serialized.cm  abaa.cm  producer-consumer.cm 
• Exercise 10 Description  Source files  Archive of source files
• Exercise 11 Description  filesys.h
• Exercise 12 Description

Examples

• Summation shell script
• Frequency shell script
• Poor man’s cat
• Illustration of fork/exec/wait
• Illustration of strtok()
• ISH: Incredibly simple shell
• Illustration of strtol()
• Copying and comparing strings
• Shared memory
• Illustration of a race condition  Semaphores: coping with the race condition
• Illustration of pipe()  Another pipe example  Setting up a pipeline
• BACI examples

Handouts

• Notes on synchronization