CS 476 -- Advanced Operating Systems and Network Management

Instructor: Sanjiv K. Bhatia

Prerequisites

CS 376, or consent of instructor

Textbooks

Uresh Vahalia. Unix Internals: The New Frontiers Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ. 1996.

Gary Nutt. Kernel Projects for Linux Addison Wesley. 2001.

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History and Standards
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Kernel, Processes, Threads, and Signals
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The grade will be based on programming projects and two tests. Each project must be meticulously documented and clearly identify its purpose, author, and date. The distribution of grades will be as follows:

Programming projects	60%
Two tests	20% each

Anyone desiring an EXC grade after October 27, 2000 must be passing the course at that point to get EXC.

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