Schedule

Monday

Wednesday

Friday

Week 1: [08/24/2020] - [08/28/2020]

1. Welcome to System Programming

1. HW0 using my Linux-In-The-Browser minicourse

See Welcome

2. How to crash in C

2. Dive into C programming

See Lecture 2 on ClassTranscribe

3. C Crash Course 2

3. man,asprintf,free,assert

See Lecture 3 on ClassTranscribe

Week 2: [08/31/2020] - [09/04/2020]

4. A day at the C side: C Crash Course 3

4. getenv, scanf, getline, fork

See lecture 4 on ClassTranscribe

5. Fork and wait

5. fork and waitpid

See lecture 5 ClassTranscribe

6. Forking Processes

6. The fork-exec-wait pattern

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Week 3: [09/07/2020] - [09/11/2020]

Labor Day (all-campus holiday)

7. Signals for Process Control

7. Introducing POSIX signals to suspend and kill child processes. SIGSTOP, SIGKILL, SIGINT

See lecture on ClassTranscribe

8. Thanks for the heap memory

How to build a memory allocator. Placement algorithms. Fragmentation.

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Week 4: [09/14/2020] - [09/18/2020]

9. Memory allocators I

Hone your pointer skills when writing malloc and free.

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10. Memory allocators II

Memory allocators part 2.

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11. Threads

Introducing pthreads. stacks. Concurrency programming gotchas.

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Week 5: [09/21/2020] - [09/25/2020]

12. Threads, memory and mutex locks

Introducing pthreads. stacks, shared memory. creating and joining. Concurrency programming gotchas.

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13. Mutexes and semaphores

Why we need Mutex locks and semaphores. Basic usage of pthread implementations. Common gotchas.

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14. Condition Variables

Mutex and Condition Variable examples. How to implement a lock (The critical section problem).

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Week 6: [09/28/2020] - [10/02/2020]

15. Critical Section Problem

Incorrect attempts to solve the Critical Section Problem. Introduction to Condition Variables.

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16. Condition Variables II

Condition Variables. Implementing a semaphore using a Condition Variable.

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17. Reader Writer Problem

Implementing a barrier. Implementing the R/W Problem using Condition Variables.

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Week 7: [10/05/2020] - [10/09/2020]

18. Dining Philosophers

The Dining Philosophers problem

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19. Deadlock

Introduction to Deadlock. Coffman conditions.

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20. Page tables and IPC

Virtual memory

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Week 8: [10/12/2020] - [10/16/2020]

21. Pipes and seeking

Moving data using pipes, seekable streams, named pipes, behavior with fork

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22. UDP/TCP

Robust error handling. EINTR. Intro to TCP,UDP,IP

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23. TCP Client

TCP/IP Header. IPv4 exhaustion. A web client

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Week 9: [10/19/2020] - [10/23/2020]

24. TCP Server

Passive sockets. The 4 server calls and what they do. Gotchas.

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25. Files

ext2/3/4 filesystem, index nodes (inodes), superbocks, ZFS / BtrFS

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26. Files 2

ext2/3/4 filesystem, index nodes (inodes), superbocks, ZFS / BtrFS

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Week 10: [10/26/2020] - [10/30/2020]

27. Files 3

Symbolic links, hard links, directory searching, intro to permissions

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28. Files 4

File permissions, directories, file globbing, intro to RAID

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29. Files-5

Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID), the various RAID levels

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Week 11: [11/01/2020] - [11/05/2020]

30. Scheduling and Scheduling Algorithms

Scheduling examples

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31. Epoll

Intro to select, poll, and epoll

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32. Disks and Signals

Disks and Signals

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Week 12: [11/08/2020] - [11/12/2020]

33. Working with Signals

Working with Signals

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34. Networking Protocols

TCP handshakes, QUIC, HTTP/1.1

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35. RPC

Remote Procedure Calls

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Week 13: [11/15/2020] - [11/19/2020]

36. Systems Concepts Review

Systems Concepts Review

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37. Misc.

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No lecture

Week 14: [11/22/2020] - [11/26/2020]

Fall Break

Week 15: [11/29/2020] - [12/03/2020]

No lecture

Week 16: [12/06/2020] - [12/10/2020]

No lecture

Last day of classes at UIUC