
Operating System Concepts, 8th Edition
by Abraham Silberschatz (Yale University ); Peter B. Galvin (Corporate Technologies); Greg Gagne (Westminster College)-
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Summary
Author Biography
Computer Science at Yale University. Prior to joining Yale, he was the
Vice President of the Information Sciences Research Center at Bell
Laboratories. Prior to that, he held a chaired professorship in the
Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.
Professor Silberschatz is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. He
received the 2002 IEEE Taylor L. Booth Education Award, the 1998 ACM
Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, and the 1997 ACM SIGMOD Contribution Award. In recognition of his outstanding level of
innovation and technical excellence, he was awarded the Bell
Laboratories President's Award for three different
Projects -- the QTM Project (1998), the DataBlitz
Project (1999), and the NetInventory Project (2004).
Professor Silberschatz' writings have appeared in numerous ACM and IEEE
publications and other professional conferences and journals. He is a
coauthor of the textbook Database System Concepts. He has also written
Op-Ed articles for the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and the
Hartford Courant, among others.
Peter Baer Galvin is the chief technologist for Corporate Technologies
(www.cptech.com), a computer facility reseller and integrator. Before
that, Mr. Galvin was the systems manager for Brown University's
Computer Science Department. He is also Sun columnist for ;login:
magazine. Mr. Galvin has written articles for Byte and other
magazines, and has written columns for SunWorld and SysAdmin
magazines. As a consultant and trainer, he has given talks and taught
tutorials on security and system administration worldwide.
Greg Gagne is chair of the Computer Science department at Westminster
College in Salt Lake City where he has been teaching since 1990. In
addition to teaching operating systems, he also teaches computer
networks, distributed systems, and software engineering. He also
provides workshops to computer science educators and industry
professionals.
Table of Contents
Overview | |
Introduction | p. 3 |
Operating-System Structures | p. 49 |
Process Management | |
Processes | p. 101 |
Threads | p. 153 |
CPU Scheduling | p. 183 |
Process Synchronization | p. 225 |
Deadlocks | p. 283 |
Memory Management | |
Main Memory | p. 315 |
Virtual Memory | p. 357 |
Storage Management | |
File-System Interface | p. 421 |
File-System Implementation | p. 461 |
Mass-Storage Structure | p. 505 |
I/O Systems | p. 555 |
Protection and Security | |
Protection | p. 591 |
Security | p. 621 |
Distributed Systems | |
Distributed System Structures | p. 673 |
Distributed File Systems | p. 705 |
Distributed Coordination | p. 727 |
Special Purpose Systems | |
Real-Time Systems | p. 759 |
Multimedia Systems | p. 779 |
Case Studies | |
The Linux System | p. 801 |
Windows XP | p. 847 |
Influential Operating Systems | p. 903 |
Appendices | |
BSD UNIX (contents online) | |
The Mach System (contents online) | |
Windows 2000 (contents online) | |
Bibliography | p. 923 |
Credits | p. 941 |
Index | p. 943 |
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