Systems programming II
A Blucher
6 points * 4 hours per week * Second semester * Caulfield * Prerequisites: SFT4100 recommended
Communicating sequential processes, polling and interrupts, semaphores, pipes, sockets, distributed and parallel processing, client-server relationships. Conflicting subsystem requirements: DBMS, TPMS, timing, performance measurement, tailoring operating systems facilities.
Assessment
Written (4000 words): 50% * Practical work: 50%
Recommended texts
Deitel H M Operating systems 2nd edn, Addison-Wesley
Hoare C A R Communicating sequential processes Prentice-Hall, 1985