William Stallings

Published December, 1997 by Prentice Hall Engineering/Science/Mathematics

Copyright 1998, 781 pp.
Cloth
ISBN 0-13-887407-7
$67.00

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Blending up-to-date theory with modern applications, this book offers a comprehensive treatment of operating systems with an emphasis on internals and design issues.

The use of Windows NT, UNIX SVR4, and Solaris 2.x as running case studies through the book motivates the material and enhances understanding. Expanded treatment of multithreading and object-oriented design, together with new coverage of microkernels, SMP, and clusters. Provides a solid understanding of the key mechanisms of operating systems and the types of design trade-offs and decisions. A broad and unified treatment of distributed operating systems thoroughly covers this area of increasing importance, including process and thread migration, distributed file systems, mutual exclusion and deadlock, and clusters.



Provides a solid understanding of the key mechanisms of operating systems and the types of design trade-offs and decisions.

• A broad and unified treatment of distributed operating systems thoroughly covers this area of increasing importance, including process and thread migration, distributed file systems, mutual exclusion and deadlock, and clusters.

• Solid treatment of virtual memory, concurrency, scheduling, I/O, and file systems.

• Includes a new appendix on operating systems

Preface.

I. BACKGROUND.

1. Computer System Overview.
2. Operating System Overview.

II. PROCESSES.

3. Process Description and Control.
4. Threads, SMP, and Microkernels.
5. Concurrency,: Mutual Exclusion, and Synchronization.
6. Concurrency: Deadlock and Starvation.

III. MEMORY.

7. Memory Management.
8. Virtual Memory.

IV. SCHEDULING.

9. Uniprocessor Scheduling.
10. Multiprocessor and Real-Time Scheduling.

V. INPUT/OUTPUT AND FILES.

11. I/O Management and Disk Scheduling.
12. File Management.

VI. DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS.

13. Distributed Processing, Client/Server, and Clusters.
14. Distributed Process Management.

VII. SECURITY.

15. Security.
Appendix A. Queuing Analysis.
Appendix B. Object-Oriented Design.
Appendix C. Programming and Operating System Projects.
Appendix D. OSP: An Environment for Operating System Projects.
Appendix E. BACI: The Ben-Ari Concurrent Programming System.
Glossary.
References.
Index.