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OPERATING SYSTEM SERVICES

 Different operating systems can provide different set of


services.
 Some of the basic services provided by operating system
are:
1. Program Execution:
Operating system provides a convenient environment
where users can run their programs.
The Operating system performs memory allocation to
programs, load them into appropriate location so that
they can execute.
The users need not to worry about all these tasks.
2. I/O Operations
In order to execute a program, it usually
requires an I/O operations.
For Example: It may need to read a file and
print the output
When all these I/O operations are
performed users cannot control I/O
devices.
All I/O are performed under the control of
operating system.
3. File System Manipulation
 The execution of a program may involve
reading data from a file or writing data to
a file.
 The operating system provides all these
operations and performs secondary
storage management.
 The users just give commands to read or
write a particular file, the rest of work is
done by an operating system.
4. Communication
 The various processes executing on a
system may need to communicate in
order to exchange data or information.
 Operating system provides this
communication by using the facility of
message passing.
 In message passing, packets of information
are moved between processes by the
operating system.
5. Error Detection
 When various programs are executing on a
system involving various resources, an error may
occur.
 Error may occur in CPU and memory hardware (
such as a memory error or a power failure), in
I/O devices and in user programs ( such as stack
overflow, an attempt to access an illegal memory
location).
 In such situation, the OS constantly monitors the
system for detecting the errors.
 For each type of error, the OS takes the
appropriate action to ensure correct and
consistent computing.
6. Resource Allocation
 When multiple processes are running on
a system or multiple users are logged on,
large variety of resources may be used by
each process or a user.
 These resources may be CPU cycles, main
memory, files, I/O devices etc.
 The OS manages all these resources and
uses different algorithms to satisfy the
requirements of different processes or
users.
7. Accounting
 When multiple resources are allocated to
different processes in multiprogramming,
the OS keeps track of which user or
process has how many resources and of
which kind.
 This kind of record keeping by an OS is
known as accounting.
8. Protection
 When several processes are executing
concurrently, it is important that different
processes should not also interfere with OS.
 Thus, an operating system provides protection
to ensure that all the access to system
resources is controlled.
 An OS also provides security to the system by
authenticating different users are allowed to
access the system.
 The OS also defends the external I/O devices,
including modems and network adapters from
invalid access attempts.

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