Operating System Concepts

The sixth updated edition offers improved conceptual coverage, added content to bridge the gap between concepts and actual implementations and a new chapter on the newest operating system to capture the attention of critics, consumers and industry alike windows xpbrand new chapter on the newest operating system, windows xpbrand new chapter on threads has been added and includes coverage of pthreads and java threadsbrand new chapter on windows 2000 replaces windows ntout with the old, in with the new! all code examples have been rewritten and are now in cclient-server models and nfs coverage has been moved to an earlier part of the textthe sixth edition now offers increased coverage of small footprint operating systems such as palm os and real-time operating systemsupdated, core material in every chapter has been updated, as has coverage of linux, solaris and freebsd. Table of contents:introductioncomputer-system structuresoperating-system structuresprocessesthreadscpu schedulingprocess synchronizationdeadlocksmemory managementvirtual memoryfile-system interfacefile-system implementationi/o systemsmass-storage structuredistributed system structuresdistributed file systemsdistributed coordinationprotectionsecuritythe linux systemwindows 2000windows xphistorical perspectiveappendix a: the freebsd system (online)appendix b: the mach system (online)appendix c: the nachos system (online)