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R22 MCA JNTUH

OPERATING SYSTEMS
MCA I Year I Sem. L T P C
3 0 0 3
Prerequisites:
1. A course on “Computer Programming and Data Structures”.
2. A course on “Computer Organization and Architecture”.

Course Objectives:
● Introduce operating system concepts (i.e., processes, threads, scheduling, synchronization, deadlocks,
memory management, file and I/O subsystems and protection)
● Introduce the issues to be considered in the design and development of operating system
● Introduce basic Unix commands, system call interface for process management, interprocess
communication and I/O in Unix

Course Outcomes:
● Will be able to control access to a computer and the files that may be shared
● Demonstrate the knowledge of the components of computers and their respective roles in computing.
● Ability to recognize and resolve user problems with standard operating environments.
● Gain practical knowledge of how programming languages, operating systems, and architectures interact
and how to use each effectively.

UNIT - I
Operating System - Introduction, Structures - Simple Batch, Multiprogrammed, Time-shared, Personal
Computer, Parallel, Distributed Systems, Real-Time Systems, System components, Operating System services,
System Calls
Process - Process concepts and scheduling, Operations on processes, Cooperating Processes, Threads

UNIT - II
CPU Scheduling - Scheduling Criteria, Scheduling Algorithms, Multiple -Processor Scheduling. System call
interface for process management-fork, exit, wait, waitpid, exec
Deadlocks - System Model, Deadlocks Characterization, Methods for Handling Deadlocks, Deadlock Prevention,
Deadlock Avoidance, Deadlock Detection, and Recovery from Deadlock

UNIT - III
Process Management and Synchronization - The Critical Section Problem, Synchronization Hardware,
Semaphores, and Classical Problems of Synchronization, Critical Regions, Monitors
Interprocess Communication Mechanisms: IPC between processes on a single computer system, IPC between
processes on different systems, using pipes, FIFOs, message queues, shared memory.

UNIT - IV
Memory Management and Virtual Memory - Logical versus Physical Address Space, Swapping, Contiguous
Allocation, Paging, Segmentation, Segmentation with Paging, Demand Paging, Page Replacement, Page
Replacement Algorithms.

UNIT - V
File System Interface and Operations -Access methods, Directory Structure, Protection, File System Structure,
Allocation methods, Free-space Management. Usage of open, create, read, write, close, lseek, stat, ioctl system
calls.

TEXT BOOKS:
1. Operating System Principles - Abraham Silberchatz, Peter B. Galvin, Greg Gagne 7th Edition, John Wiley
2. Advanced programming in the UNIX environment, W.R. Stevens, Pearson education.
REFERENCES:
1. Operating Systems- Internals and Design Principles, William Stallings, Fifth Edition–2005, Pearson
Education/PHI
2. Operating System A Design Approach- Crowley, TMH.
3. Modern Operating Systems, Andrew S. Tanenbaum 2nd edition, Pearson/PHI
4. UNIX programming environment, Kernighan and Pike, PHI/ Pearson Education
5. UNIX Internals -The New Frontiers, U. Vahalia, Pearson Education.

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