Operating Systems

This book intends to provide a proper understanding of the theoretical and practical concepts of Operating system. Detailed knowledge of the fundamentals of Operating system design and their application to design issues and development of Operating systems are provided in this book. For the readers’ benefit, the case studies for LINUX, UNIX and Windows 2000/XP operating systems are given to illustrate the practical implementation of resource management’s strategies. This helps in better understanding of the principles and their application in a real operating system.
Table of contents :
Part One: Introduction
Chapter 1: Overview of Computers and Operating Systems

Part Two: Processes and Threads
Chapter 2: Process Concepts and Management
Chapter 3: Concurrency and Process Synchronization
Chapter 4: Threads
Chapter 5: Deadlocks and Starvation

Part Three: Memory Management
Chapter 6: Main Memory and Virtual Memory Management
Chapter 7: File System Management and Implementation

Part Four: Input / Output Devices
Chapter 8: I/O Device Management

Part Five: Distributed Systems and Security
Chapter 9: Distributed System Management
Chapter 10: Security

Part Six: Case Studies
Chapter 11: UNIX Operating System
Chapter 12: LINUX Operating System
Chapter 13: WINDOWS 2000/XP Operating Systems