MLK day
1. Dive into System programming
Prelecture: HW0. The lecture will assume you've made significant progress on this homework
2. Dive into C programming
Prelecture: Intro to C Notes. The lecture will assume you've already reviewed and played with this material.
4. getenv, scanf, getline, fork
See the Wikibook Input and Output
7. Introducing POSIX signals to suspend and kill child processes. SIGSTOP, SIGKILL, SIGINT
See the Wikibook process control
How to build a memory allocator. Placement algorithms. Fragmentation.
Introducing pthreads. stacks, shared memory. creating and joining. Concurrency programming gotchas.
Why we need Mutex locks and semaphores. Basic usage of pthread implementations. Common gotchas.
Mutex and Condition Variable examples. How to implement a lock (The critical section problem).
Incorrect attempts to solve the Critical Section Problem. Introduction to Condition Variables.
Condition Variables. Implementing a semaphore using a Condition Variable.
See Condition Variables.
Implementing a barrier. Implementing the R/W Problem using Condition Variables.
Moving data using pipes, seekable streams, named pipes, behavior with fork
Spring Break - Piazza responses limited
Spring Break - Piazza responses limited
Spring Break - Piazza responses limited
Robust error handling. EINTR. Intro to TCP,UDP,IP
See UDP, Error handling and Networking Introduction
Scheduling examples
See Scheduling and Scheduling Algorithms.
Intro to select, poll, and epoll
Disks and Signals
Working with Signals
Systems Concepts Review