Overview of 1 - 21 Lectures (V-U)

Page Fault Frequency, Sharing, Copy on Write, Mapped Files, P6 Memory System (V-U)

Page Replacement, Thrashing, Working Set Model, Page Fault Frequency, Copy on Write (V-U)

Paging, Address Translation, Page Tables & Page Table Entries, Multi-level Address Translation (V-U)

POSIX Threads: Interface, e.g clone() System Call, Process / Threads States, FSM in Linux (V-U)

Process Management Models, State Machines, PCB, System Calls for Process Management (V-U)

Processes: Definition, Address Space; Context Switching, Process Management Models (V-U)

Producer Consumer Problem, Semaphores, Condition Variables and Monitors (V-U)

Readers / Writers Problem, Thread Safety and Reentrant Functions, Solving Thread Un-safety (V-U)

Real-time Operating Systems (V-U)

Scheduling: Round Robin, Priority Scheduling, STCF (V-U)

Security Issues, Policy VS Mechanism, Design Principles for Security (V-U)

Segmentation, Combined Segmentation & Paging, Efficient Translation and Caching (V-U)

Set Associative & Fully Associative Cache, Demand Paging, Page Replacement Algorithms (V-U)

Shared Variables, Concurrency and Synchronization, Critical Sections (V-U)

Thread Usage Paradigms, Paper by Hauser et al., Pros and Cons of Different Paradigms (V-U)

Threads: Design Space, Address Space, User and Kernel Level Threads (V-U)

Trojan Horses, Login Spoofing Attacks, Logic Bombs, Trap Doors, Buffer & Stack Overflow (V-U)

Types of Buffer Overflow Attacks, StackGuard & PointGurad, Libsafe (V-U)

User Authentication, Password Based Authentication, Unix Password Scheme (V-U)