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Scope and Functions of System Programming: Traditional areas of system programming. System programming in an OS environment. History, architecture, services, and features of Unix and Windows. |
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A Program in a Unix Environment: Steps involved in software development of a program. Preprocessor, Macros, Compiler, Modules, Linker. Command-line parameters, Environment parameters, Shell programming. |
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System Calls, Importance, and Classification: System calls and library calls. System calls for Inter-process Communication (IPC) and Network Programming. System and library calls in UNIX, their general structure and interfaces. |
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Processes: Creating processes in UNIX. Parent and Child processes. |
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Usage of Processes: Fork() system call. Exec() family of system calls. Synchronization between parent and child processes: system(), wait(), exit(), etc. |
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Multiprogramming and Thread Basics: |
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Disk Operations: I/O directories and file system operations. Virtual memory. |
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MID-TERM EXAM |
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Inter-Process Communication (IPC): Purpose and usage in system programming. IPC mechanisms. Pipes as IPC: Named and unnamed pipes. |
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Message Queues |
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Signals, Semaphores, and Shared Memory |
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Sockets and IPC Usage: UDP and TCP sockets. Network programming. |
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RPC (Remote Procedure Call) |
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Operating System Customization: Device driver development demo applications. |
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General Review |
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FINAL EXAM |
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FINAL EXAM |
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