Operating Systems

Professor: Hezy Yeshurun

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Teaching assistant:    Mati Shomrat

Email: matis@post.tau.ac.il

Room:                         Software Engineering Bldg., Room 209

Office hour:                Thu. 15:00 – 16:00 (by appointment).

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Slides and code examples

1. Introduction [slides] [handouts] [sample code]
2. Files [slides] [handouts] [sample code]
3. Processes [slides] [handouts] [sample code]
4. Inter-Process Communication [slides] [handouts] [sample code]
5. Virtual Memory [slides] [handouts] [sample code]
   Note: in order to build the sample code you must add psapi.lib to your project's Additional Dependencies.
   See full details in the example itself.
6. Memory Mapped Files [slides] [handouts] [sample code]
7. Dynamic Link Libraries [slides] [handouts] [sample code]
8. Threads [slides] [handouts] [sample code]
9. Networking [slides] [handouts] [sample code]
10. Security [slides] [handouts] [sample code]
11. Exceptions [slides] [handouts] [sample code]
    
    

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Homework assignments

Submission instructions

• Hardcopy
  Submit hardcopy to box 268 (Efrat Mashiach). Submission deadline is as specified in class.
  Your hardcopy should include all code you've written and an example output.
  You do not need to include automatically generated files ("stdafx.[cpp|h]") in your hardcopy
• Softcopy
  Make sure to follow these instructions to the letter as checking is partially automatic.
  
  In your home dir create a directory named os08b.
  For each assignment create a subdirectory in os08b named ex01, ex02, etc.
  In this subdirectory you will place all your files organized in two subdirectories bin and code
  The bin directory will contain all executable files (exe, dll, lib), the code directory will contain the source code (.cpp, .h)
  as well as the project and solution files (.sln, .vcproj).
  Make sure your files are accessible (chmod 775)
• Source files
  All source files should begin with the following header

/*
* Name: <your-full-name>
* Id: <your-id>
* login: <your-login>
* Group No: <your-group-number (06|07|08)>
* Assignment No: <the-assignment-number>
* IDE Version: <version-od-IDE-used (2003|2008)>
*/

Template files are available (.cpp, .h)

• Development environment
  Your solution will be developed using either Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition (preferred) or the older 2003
  version installed on the university servers. Make sure to indicate which version you have used in your files.
  Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition is available for free from Microsoft.
  
  

Assignments

1. Assignment #1 (files) [sample input] [output]
Due date: 27.5 for the Tuesday group, 5.6 for the Thursday groups.
Make sure that for the sample input your solution produces exactly the same output as above (the order of entries may differ).
This output was produced on a machine with clusters of size 4K. For debugging purposes only make sure this is the value
you use in your computations.

2. Assignment #2 (IPC)
Due date: 10.6 for the Tuesday group, 19.6 for the Thursday groups.

3. Assignment #3 (Producer/Consumer)
Due date: 24.6 for the Tuesday group, 3.7 for the Thursday groups.
Create a single solution containing both projects.

4. Assignment #4 (Producer/Consumer using DLLs)
Due date: 8.7 for the Tuesday group, 13.7 for the Thursday groups.
Code: consumer.cpp

5. Assignment #5 (Client/Server)
Due date: Sunday 27.7 for all groups

Grades

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Useful links

• Microsoft Development Network (MSDN)

o Almost everything we will discuss in class can be found under
MSDN ▶ MSDN Library ▶ Win32 and COM Development ▶ System Services

• Windows Operating System Internals Curriculum Resource Kit (CRK)
• Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) Banned Function Calls – Unsafe functions and their safe replacements.
• Windows Data Types