Principles of Operating Systems

CMSC 421-01 - Fall 2018

Tuesday/Thursday 4:00PM - 5:15PM — Public Policy 206

Course Syllabus

News

Posted: December 6, 2018

Homework 3 has been posted. It is due by 11:59 PM EST on Tuesday, December 11^th. This homework is optional — if you choose not to complete it, you are exempt from the assignment (your homework grade will only include homeworks 1 and 2). In addition, the late policy discussed in-class on Thursday, December 6^th applies to this assignment.

Posted: December 2, 2018

Homework 2 has been posted. It is due by 11:59 PM EST on Tuesday, December 11^th. The course late policy does not apply to this assignment — you must turn in the assignment on time to receive credit. This assignment is only for Section 01 of the course — the other sections will have separate assignments for Homework 2.

Posted: November 8, 2018

As discussed in class on Tuesday, Exam 2 will be held in-class on Thursday, November 15th. Exam 2 will cover chapters 6, 7, 10, 11, and 12, as well as the two videos since Exam 1.

Posted: October 27, 2018

Part I of Project 2 has been posted. Part I of the project is due by 11:59 EST on November 10. Please see the class Piazza for the link to create your repository on GitHub. Parts II and III of the project will be released at a later date, and will have their own due dates later in the semester.

Posted: October 5, 2018

Project 1 has been posted. It is due by 11:59PM EDT on October 26. Please see the class Piazza for the link to create your repository on GitHub.

Posted: October 2, 2018

As a reminder, Exam 1 will be held on October 9th in class. Per the syllabus, please remember to bring your UMBC ID with you to the exam. Calculators will be allowed on the exam, however they should not be needed (subject to erasing the memory on any calculators with internal program storage or any similar features).

Posted: September 17, 2018

Homework 1 has been posted. Instructions for creating your repository are posted on Piazza, as with Project 0.

Posted: September 7, 2018

Project 0 has been posted. Please see the announcement post on Piazza for due dates and how to set up your project repository.

Posted: August 29, 2018

Welcome to the website for this semester's CMSC 421 course. Please feel free to browse the resources below at your leisure, as they may or may not become more useful as the semester goes on.

Useful Links:

• Textbook Website
• Piazza
• GitHub
• The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7/IEEE Std. 1003.1, 2013 Edition/POSIX.1-2008
• N1570 - Final Draft of the C11 Standard (April 12, 2011)
• KallistiOS Source Code Repository
• Hello World System Call Tutorial (Kernel Version 4.18.6)
• Linux Kernel API documentation [archive.org]
• Unreliable Guide to Locking [in the Linux Kernel]
• Linux Cross Reference
• Kernel Korner: System Calls
• Beej's Guide to Network Programming
• The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide
• Access the Linux Kernel using the /proc filesystem
• OSDev Wiki
• PS3 Epic Fail [ccc.de]
• Console Hacking 2013 - Wii U [ccc.de]
• Breaking the 3DS [ccc.de]
• Nintendo Hacking 2016 [ccc.de]
• Console Hacking 2016 (PS4) [ccc.de]
• Console Security - Switch [ccc.de]

Class slides:

Arranged from most to least recently covered.

• Chapter 9^[*]
• Chapter 8^[*]
• Chapter 12^[*]
• Chapter 11^[*]
• Chapter 10^[*]
• Chapter 7^[*]
• Chapter 6^[*]
• Chapter 5^[*]
• Chapter 4^[*]
• Chapter 3^[*]
• Chapter 2^[*]
• Chapter 1

Most slides are Copyright © 2013 Silberschatz, Galvin, and Gagne. Used with permission (as granted on the textbook website). Slides marked with a ^[*] have been modified for use in this course. Slides marked with ^[†] are not from the book, but were written by the instructor for this class specifically.

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