Date |
Topic |
Reading |
Notes |
| January 13 | Introduction / Course Overview | |
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| January 15 | The System Interface: libraries and system calls etc. |
Ch. 1 |
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| January 20 | The System Interface: libraries and system calls etc. | Ch. 1 | |
| January 22 | File I/O: file descriptors, unbuffered I/O etc | Ch. 3 | |
| January 27 | File I/O: access rights etc | Ch. 3 | |
| January 29 |
Files and Directories: accessing file status information | Ch. 4 | Assignment 0 (static and
dynamic library primer) |
| February 3 |
Files and Directories continued | Ch. 4 | |
| February 5 |
Overview of Makefiles | Ch. 5 | |
| February 10 | The Standard I/O Library: buffered I/O | Ch. 5 | Assignment 0 due |
| February 12 | The Process Environment: setjmp and longjmp etc | Ch. 7 | |
| February 17 | - No Class - - Monday Schedule - |
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| February 19 |
The Process Environment, continued | Ch. 7 | Assignment 1 |
| February 24 | Process Creation: fork and exec etc | Ch. 8 | |
| February 26 | Process Creation continued | Ch. 8 | |
| March 2 |
Review | ||
| March 4 |
Midterm exam | -- Tentative Date -- Assignment 1 due 11:59pm on March 5th |
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| March 9 |
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- No Class - - Spring Recess - |
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| March 11 | |
- No Class - - Spring Recess - |
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| March 16 | Signals | Ch. 10 | |
| March 18 |
Signals continued | Ch. 10 | |
| March 23 | Interprocess Communication: pipes, fifos, semaphores etc | Ch. 14 | |
| March 25 | IPC continued | Ch. 14 | Assignment 2 |
| March 30 |
Advanced I/O | Ch. 12 | |
| April 1 |
Record Locking | Ch. 12 | |
| April 6 |
Non-blocking I/O, asynchronous I/O | ||
| April 8 |
I/O multiplexing: poll / select, memory-mapping | |
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| April 13 | aio_read/write etc, Linux sendfile, kernel event notification schemes | Assignment 2 due (11:59pm) |
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| April 15 |
Perl Intro |
Assignment 3 |
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| April 20 | Regular Expressions |
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| April 22 | Data manipulation using Perl |
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| April 27 | Review |
Assignment 3 due (11:59pm on April 30th) |