SFT4151

UNIX software design and development

J Boutland

6 points
* 3 hours per week
* Second semester
* Caulfield
* Prerequisites: Fluency in C programming at the UNIX system call level. Some experience with assembler programming desirable.

Synopsis Historical development of the UNIX operating system. Design of the Minix operating system. UNIX system administration. UNIX system programming: system calls and the operating system structure, processes and inter-process communication, process scheduling, input-output software, memory management, file systems. Practical system modification considerations: the system library; compiler procedures, assembly language procedures, organisation of the library; organising the file systems; recompilation of the operating system; building the boot procedures; system testing; device driver installation.

Assessment Written: 50%
* Practical work: 50%

Prescribed texts

Tannenbaum A S Operating systems design and implementation Prentice-Hall, 1987