Operating systems are undergoing rapid change as computers are now prevalent in virtually every application, from games for children through the most sophisticated planning tools for governments and multinational firms. This book provides software developers and programmers with a clear description of the concepts that underlie operating systems. A large number of examples are presentedthat pertain to the most popular and the most innovative operating systems. The book also incorporates the use of simulators and operating system emulators. The information covered in the eighth edition will help software developers and programmers take advantage of operating systems to make the most out of their applications. INDICE: PART ONE OVERVIEW Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 What Operating Systems Do 3 1.2 Computer-System Organization 6 1.3 Computer-System Architecture 12 1.4 Operating-System Structure 18 1.5 Operating-System Operations 20 1.6 Process Management 23 1.7 Memory Management 24 1.8 Storage Management 25 1.9 Protection and Security 29 1.10 Distributed Systems 30 1.11 Special-Purpose Systems 32 1.12 Computing Environments 34 1.13 Open-Source Operating Systems 37 1.14 Summary 40 Exercises 42 Bibliographical Notes 46 Chapter 2 Operating-System Structures 2.1 Operating-System Services 49 2.2 User Operating-System Interface 52 2.3 System Calls 55 2.4 Types of System Calls 58 2.5 System Programs 66 2.6 Operating-System Design and Implementation 68 2.7 Operating-System Structure 70 2.8 Virtual Machines 76 2.9 Operating-System Debugging 84 2.10 Operating-System Generation 88 2.11 System Boot 89 2.12 Summary 90 Exercises 91 Bibliographical Notes 98 PART TWO PROCESS MANAGEMENT Chapter 3 Processes 3.1 Process Concept 101 3.2 Process Scheduling 105 3.3 Operations on Processes 110 3.4 Interprocess Communication 116 3.5 Examples of IPC Systems 123 3.6 Communication in Client Server Systems 128 3.7 Summary 140 Exercises 141 Bibliographical Notes 152 xvii xviii Contents Chapter 4 Threads 4.1 Overview 153 4.2 Multithreading Models 157 4.3 Thread Libraries 159 4.4 Threading Issues 165 4.5 Operating-System Examples 171 4.6 Summary 174 Exercises 174 Bibliographical Notes 182 Chapter 5 CPU Scheduling 5.1 Basic Concepts 183 5.2 Scheduling Criteria 187 5.3 Scheduling Algorithms 188 5.4 Thread Scheduling 199 5.5 Multiple-Processor Scheduling 200 5.6 Operating System Examples 206 5.7 Algorithm Evaluation 213 5.8 Summary 217 Exercises 218 Bibliographical Notes 223 Chapter 6 Process Synchronization 6.1 Background 225 6.2 The Critical-Section Problem 227 6.3 Petersons Solution 229 6.4 Synchronization Hardware 231 6.5 Semaphores 234 6.6 Classic Problems of Synchronization 239 6.7 Monitors 244 6.8 Synchronization Examples 252 6.9 Atomic Transactions 257 6.10 Summary 267 Exercises 267 Bibliographical Notes 280 Chapter 7 Deadlocks 7.1 System Model 283 7.2 Deadlock Characterization 285 7.3 Methods for Handling Deadlocks 290 7.4 Deadlock Prevention 291 7.5 Deadlock Avoidance 294 7.6 Deadlock Detection 301 7.7 Recovery from Deadlock 304 7.8 Summary 306 Exercises 307 Bibliographical Notes 311 PART THREE MEMORY MANAGEMENT Chapter 8 Main Memory 8.1 Background 315 8.2 Swapping 322 8.3 Contiguous Memory Allocation 324 8.4 Paging 328 8.5 Structure of the Page Table 337 8.6Segmentation 342 8.7 Example: The Intel Pentium 345 8.8 Summary 349 Exercises350 Bibliographical Notes 354 Contents xix Chapter 9 VirtualMemory 9.1 Background 357 9.2 Demand Paging 361 9.3 Copy-on-Write 367 9.4 Page Replacement 369 9.5 Allocation of Frames 382 9.6 Thrashing 386 9.7 Memory-Mapped Files 390 9.8Allocating Kernel Memory 396 9.9 Other Considerations 399 9.10 Operating-System Examples 405 9.11 Summary 407 Exercises 409 Bibliographical Notes 417 PART FOUR STORAGE MANAGEMENT Chapter 10 File-System Interface 10.1 File Concept 42110.2 Access Methods 430 10.3 Directory and Disk Structure 433 10.4 File-System Mounting 444 10.5 File Sharing 446 10.6 Protection 451 10.7 Summary 456 Exercises 457 Bibliographical Notes 459 Chapter 11 File-System Implementation 11.1File-System Structure 461 11.2 File-System Implementation 464 11.3 Directory Implementation 470 11.4 Allocation Methods 471 11.5 Free-Space Management 479 11.6 Efficiency and Performance 482 11.7 Recovery 486 11.8 NFS 490 11.9 Example: The WAFL File System 496 11.10 Summary 498 Exercises 499 Bibliographical Notes 502 Chapter 12 Mass-Storage Structure 12.1 Overview of Mass-Storage Structure 505 12.2 Disk Structure 508 12.3 Disk Attachment 509 12.4 Disk Scheduling 510 12.5 Disk Management 516 12.6 Swap-Space Management 520 12.7 RAID Structure 522 12.8 Stable-Storage Implementation 533 12.9 Tertiary-Storage Structure 534 12.10 Summary 543 Exercises 545 Bibliographical Notes 552 Chapter 13 I/O Systems 13.1 Overview 555 13.2 I/O Hardware 556 13.3 Application I/O Interface 565 13.4 Kernel I/O Subsystem 571 13.5 Transforming I/O Requests to Hardware Operations 578 13.6 STREAMS 580 13.7 Performance 582 13.8 Summary 585 Exercises 586 Bibliographical Notes 588 xx Contents PART FIVE PROTECTION AND SECURITY Chapter 14 Protection 14.1 Goals of Protection 591 14.2 Principles of Protection592 14.3 Domain of Protection 593 14.4 Access Matrix 598 14.5 Implementation of Access Matrix 602 14.6 Access Control 605 14.7 Revocation of Access Rights 606 14.8 Capability-Based Systems 607 14.9 Language-Based Protection 610 14.10Summary 615 Exercises 616 Bibliographical Notes 618 Chapter 15 Security 15.1 The Security Problem 621 15.2 Program Threats 625 15.3 System and Network Threats 633 15.4 Cryptography as a Security Tool 638 15.5 User Authentication 649 15.6 Implementing Security Defenses 654 15.7 Firewalling to Protect Systems and Networks 661 15.8 Computer-Security Classifications 662 15.9 An Example: Windows XP 664 15.10 Summary 665 Exercises 666 Bibliographical Notes 668 PART SIXDISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS Chapter 16 Distributed System Structures 16.1 Motivation 673 16.2 Types of Networkbased Operating Systems 675 16.3 Network Structure 679 16.4 Network Topology 683 16.5 Communication Structure 684 16.6 Communication Protocols 690 16.7 Robustness 694 16.8 Design Issues 697 16.9 An Example: Networking 699 16.10 Summary 701 Exercises 701 Bibliographical Notes 704 Chapter17 Distributed File Systems 17.1 Background 705 17.2 Naming and Transparency 707 17.3 Remote File Access 710 17.4 Stateful Versus Stateless Service 715 17.5 File Replication 716 17.6 An Example: AFS 718 17.7 Summary 723 Exercises 724Bibliographical Notes 725 Chapter 18 Distributed Coordination 18.1 Event Ordering 727 18.2 Mutual Exclusion 730 18.3 Atomicity 733 18.4 Concurrency Control736 18.5 Deadlock Handling 740 18.6 Election Algorithms 747 18.7 Reaching Agreement 750 18.8 Summary 752 Exercises 753 Bibliographical Notes 755 Contents xxi PART SEVEN SPECIAL -PURPOSE SYSTEMS Chapter 19 Real-Time Systems 19.1 Overview 759 19.2 System Characteristics 760 19.3 Features of Real-Time Kernels 76219.4 Implementing Real-Time Operating Systems 764 19.5 Real-Time CPU Scheduling 768 19.6 An Example: VxWorks 5.x 774 19.7 Summary 776 Exercises 777 Bibliographical Notes 778 Chapter 20 Multimedia Systems 20.1 What Is Multimedia? 779 20.2 Compression 782 20.3 Requirements of Multimedia Kernels 784 20.4 CPU Scheduling 786 20.5 Disk Scheduling 787 20.6 Network Management 789 20.7 An Example: CineBlitz 792 20.8 Summary 795 Exercises 795 Bibliographical Notes 797 PARTEIGHT CASE STUDIES Chapter 21 The Linux System 21.1 Linux History 801 21.2 Design Principles 806 21.3 Kernel Modules 809 21.4 Process Management 812 21.5 Scheduling 815 21.6 Memory Management 820 21.7 File Systems 828 21.8 Input and Output 834 21.9 Interprocess Communication 837 21.10 Network Structure 838 21.11 Security 840 21.12 Summary 843 Exercises 844 Bibliographical Notes 845 Chapter 22 Windows XP 22.1 History 847 22.2 Design Principles 849 22.3 System Components 851 22.4 Environmental Subsystems 874 22.5 File System 878 22.6 Networking 886 22.7 Programmer Interface 892 22.8 Summary 900 Exercises 900 Bibliographical Notes 901 Chapter 23 Influential Operating Systems 23.1 Feature Migration 903 23.2 Early Systems 904 23.3 Atlas 911 23.4 XDS-940 912 23.5 THE 913 23.6 RC 4000 913 23.7 CTSS 914 23.8 MULTICS 915 23.9 IBM OS/360 915 23.10 TOPS-20917 23.11 CP/M and MS/DOS 917 23.12 Macintosh Operating System and Windows 918 23.13 Mach 919 23.14 Other Systems 920 Exercises 921 xxii Contents PART NINEAPPENDICES Appendix A BSD UNIX (contents online) A.1 UNIX History A1 A.2 Design Principles A6 A.3 Programmer Interface A8 A.4 User Interface A15 A.5 Process Management A18 A.6 Memory Management A22 A.7 File System A24 A.8 I/O System A32 A.9 Interprocess Communication A35 A.10 Summary A40 Exercises A41 Bibliographical Notes A42 Appendix B TheMach System (contents online) B.1 History of the Mach System B1 B.2 Design Principles B3 B.3 System Components B4 B.4 Process Management B7 B.5 Interprocess Communication B13 B.6 Memory Management B18 B.7 Programmer Interface B23 B.8 Summary B24 Exercises B25 Bibliographical Notes B26 Appendix C Windows 2000 (contents online) C.1 History C1 C.2 Design Principles C2 C.3 System Components C3 C.4 Environmental Subsystems C19 C.5 File System C21 C.6 Networking C28 C.7 Programmer Interface C33 C.8 Summary C40 Exercises C40 Bibliographical Notes C41 Bibliography 923 Credits 955 Index 957
- ISBN: 978-0-470-23399-3
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
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