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Inter Process Communication

The document discusses several topics related to operating system processes: - Processes can communicate through shared memory or message passing. Shared memory allows processes to access the same memory resources, while message passing involves establishing communication links and exchanging messages. - Virtual memory allows a system to appear to have more memory than is physically installed by storing seldom-used data on disk. It provides large address spaces, memory protection, memory mapping, and shared virtual memory. - File management in Linux involves directories for organizing files. There are three types of files: regular files, directories, and special files representing physical devices. Basic file operations like listing, creating, copying, moving, renaming, and deleting files are performed using commands like

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Inter Process Communication

The document discusses several topics related to operating system processes: - Processes can communicate through shared memory or message passing. Shared memory allows processes to access the same memory resources, while message passing involves establishing communication links and exchanging messages. - Virtual memory allows a system to appear to have more memory than is physically installed by storing seldom-used data on disk. It provides large address spaces, memory protection, memory mapping, and shared virtual memory. - File management in Linux involves directories for organizing files. There are three types of files: regular files, directories, and special files representing physical devices. Basic file operations like listing, creating, copying, moving, renaming, and deleting files are performed using commands like

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Inter Process Communication

Operating system allows various processes to communicate with


each other.
Processes can communicate with each other through both:-
 Shared memory
 Message passing
Shared Memory
One way of communication using shared memory can be imagined
like this: Suppose process1 and process2 are executing simultaneously
and they share some resources or use some information from another
process.
Message Passing
In this method, processes communicates with each other by
proceeding as follows:-
 Establish a communication link.
 Start exchanging messages using basic primitives.
 We need at least two primitives:-
-send(message, destination) or send(message)
-receive(message, host) or receive(message)
Fig
Memory Management
Most important parts of the operating system.
Strategies has been developed to overcome the limitations of
physical memory and the most successful of these is virtual memory.
Virtual Memory
 Makes the system appears to have more memory than it actually has.
 Does more than just make computer memory go further.
 The memory management subsystem provides:-
a. Large Address Spaces
b. Protection
c. Memory Mapping
d. Fair Physical Memory Allocation
e. Shared Virtual Memory
File Management in Linux
 To handle the files Linux has directories also known as folders.
Linux has three types of files:
1) Regular Files:- It includes files like- text files, images, binary files, etc.
2) Directories:- These are the files that store the list of files, names and the
related information.
root directory(/) – base,
/home/ - default location,
/bin – Essential User Binaries,
/boot – Static Boot Files, etc.
we could create new directories with ‘mkdir’ command.
Continued…
3) Special Files:- Represents a real physical device such as a printer
which is used for I/O operations.
File operations
1. File Listing:
$ls – All files and directories in the current directory would be listed.
$ls-l – It returns the detailed listing of the files and directories in the current
directory.
2. Creating files:
‘touch’ command can be used to create new files.
$touch filename
3. Displaying Files content:
‘cat’ command can be used to display the content of the file.
$cat filename
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4. Copying a File:
‘cp’ command can be used to create copy of a file.
$cp source/filename destination/
5. Moving a File:
‘mv’ command can be used to move a file from source to destination.
$mv source/filename destination/
6. Renaming a File:
‘mv’ command can also be used to rename a file.
$mv filename new_filename
Continued…
7. Deleting a File:
‘rm’ command can be used to remove or delete a file.
$rm filename
Device Management
Process of managing the implementation, operation, and
maintenance of a physical or virtual device.
Device files are also known as Special device files.
Linux device files are located in the /dev directory, which is an
integral part of the root(/).
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