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Summer
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Operating Systems - Tools and Unix API
[32 216] half-course, 4VL + 2PR
VL, Wednesday+Friday, 09:15-10:45, RUD
25, 3.101, Dr.
Jan-Peter Bell
PR, Wednesday+Friday, 11:15-12:45, RUD 25, 3.328,
Dr. Wolf Müller |
Computer Science Department
Systems Architecture Group |
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Abstract: A good deal of useful software comes from other
people - often published as 'Open Source'. Porting this software to a
new system often requires detailed knowledge of development tools an the
system API. This half-course covers the most common development tools as
well as the API for Unix
systems. At the end of this half-course you will not only be able to
download and compile existing software packages; you will also be able
to write similar software packages yourself.
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Synopsis:
- Half-Course, Praktische Informatik, Hauptstudium.
- Offered regularly, at least once every two years, usually
in spring.
- 2 lectures per week, 2h each, over one semester
(4SWS VL).
- 1 lab (Praktikum) per week, 2h each, over one
semester (2SWS PR).
Credits and grading:
- There will be a few, short, unannounced,
closed-book quizzes to verify your existence and to test your
understanding. These will be worth 40 percent of the final grade.
- An announced final examination will be
given at he end of the semester. It will cover all of the relevant
readings and material presented and discussed in class. It will be
worth 60 percent of the course grade.
- To qualify for the final examination, you have to complete all
lab assignments to the satisfaction of the teaching assistant (70% =
35 points).
- Regular class attendance is expected; frequent
absences are grounds for a failing grade regardless of other
performance. You may be missing up to 1 lecture per
semester without prior
and reasonable excuse. 'prior' means notification
by email before the end of business the day before the lecture.
'reasonable' means sickness or study-related events that
require your attendance.
- Lectures begin on time. Students arriving
more than 10 minutes late will not be admitted to the
lecture and will be counted as 'missing' that day.
Prerequisites: - Successful completion of PI-1.
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For beginners we recommend the knowledge from the
Unix Crash Course
Syllabus:
UNIX Tools(Script)
- RedHat Package Manager (rpm)
- make
- cvs, subversion
- regular expressions
- file utilities (sed, grep, egrep, fgrep, find)
- awk
- shells (sh, csh, bash)
- autoconf, automake
Unix System API(Script)
- processes: creation, destroy, properties
- threads
- process communication: IPC, sockets
- signals
- i/o operations with devices
- operations with files
- memory managment
Readings (Books):
Unix Tools
Unix System API
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