- •Preface
- •Contents
- •1.1 What Operating Systems Do
- •1.2 Computer-System Organization
- •1.4 Operating-System Structure
- •1.5 Operating-System Operations
- •1.6 Process Management
- •1.7 Memory Management
- •1.8 Storage Management
- •1.9 Protection and Security
- •1.10 Kernel Data Structures
- •1.11 Computing Environments
- •1.12 Open-Source Operating Systems
- •1.13 Summary
- •Practice Exercises
- •Bibliographical Notes
- •Bibliography
- •2.3 System Calls
- •2.4 Types of System Calls
- •2.5 System Programs
- •2.6 Operating-System Design and Implementation
- •2.9 Operating-System Generation
- •2.10 System Boot
- •2.11 Summary
- •Practice Exercises
- •Bibliographical Notes
- •Bibliography
- •3.1 Process Concept
- •3.2 Process Scheduling
- •3.3 Operations on Processes
- •3.4 Interprocess Communication
- •3.5 Examples of IPC Systems
- •3.7 Summary
- •Practice Exercises
- •Bibliographical Notes
- •Bibliography
- •4.1 Overview
- •4.2 Multicore Programming
- •4.3 Multithreading Models
- •4.4 Thread Libraries
- •4.5 Implicit Threading
- •4.6 Threading Issues
- •4.8 Summary
- •Practice Exercises
- •Bibliographical Notes
- •Bibliography
- •5.1 Background
- •5.3 Peterson’s Solution
- •5.4 Synchronization Hardware
- •5.5 Mutex Locks
- •5.6 Semaphores
- •5.7 Classic Problems of Synchronization
- •5.8 Monitors
- •5.9 Synchronization Examples
- •5.10 Alternative Approaches
- •5.11 Summary
- •Practice Exercises
- •Bibliographical Notes
- •Bibliography
- •6.1 Basic Concepts
- •6.2 Scheduling Criteria
- •6.3 Scheduling Algorithms
- •6.4 Thread Scheduling
- •6.5 Multiple-Processor Scheduling
- •6.6 Real-Time CPU Scheduling
- •6.8 Algorithm Evaluation
- •6.9 Summary
- •Practice Exercises
- •Bibliographical Notes
- •Bibliography
- •7.1 System Model
- •7.2 Deadlock Characterization
- •7.3 Methods for Handling Deadlocks
- •7.4 Deadlock Prevention
- •7.5 Deadlock Avoidance
- •7.6 Deadlock Detection
- •7.7 Recovery from Deadlock
- •7.8 Summary
- •Practice Exercises
- •Bibliography
- •8.1 Background
- •8.2 Swapping
- •8.3 Contiguous Memory Allocation
- •8.4 Segmentation
- •8.5 Paging
- •8.6 Structure of the Page Table
- •8.7 Example: Intel 32 and 64-bit Architectures
- •8.8 Example: ARM Architecture
- •8.9 Summary
- •Practice Exercises
- •Bibliographical Notes
- •Bibliography
- •9.1 Background
- •9.2 Demand Paging
- •9.3 Copy-on-Write
- •9.4 Page Replacement
- •9.5 Allocation of Frames
- •9.6 Thrashing
- •9.8 Allocating Kernel Memory
- •9.9 Other Considerations
- •9.10 Operating-System Examples
- •9.11 Summary
- •Practice Exercises
- •Bibliographical Notes
- •Bibliography
- •10.2 Disk Structure
- •10.3 Disk Attachment
- •10.4 Disk Scheduling
- •10.5 Disk Management
- •10.6 Swap-Space Management
- •10.7 RAID Structure
- •10.8 Stable-Storage Implementation
- •10.9 Summary
- •Practice Exercises
- •Bibliographical Notes
- •Bibliography
- •11.1 File Concept
- •11.2 Access Methods
- •11.3 Directory and Disk Structure
- •11.4 File-System Mounting
- •11.5 File Sharing
- •11.6 Protection
- •11.7 Summary
- •Practice Exercises
- •Bibliographical Notes
- •Bibliography
- •12.2 File-System Implementation
- •12.3 Directory Implementation
- •12.4 Allocation Methods
- •12.5 Free-Space Management
- •12.7 Recovery
- •12.9 Example: The WAFL File System
- •12.10 Summary
- •Practice Exercises
- •Bibliographical Notes
- •Bibliography
- •13.1 Overview
- •13.2 I/O Hardware
- •13.3 Application I/O Interface
- •13.4 Kernel I/O Subsystem
- •13.5 Transforming I/O Requests to Hardware Operations
- •13.6 STREAMS
- •13.7 Performance
- •13.8 Summary
- •Practice Exercises
- •Bibliographical Notes
- •Bibliography
- •14.1 Goals of Protection
- •14.2 Principles of Protection
- •14.3 Domain of Protection
- •14.4 Access Matrix
- •14.5 Implementation of the Access Matrix
- •14.6 Access Control
- •14.7 Revocation of Access Rights
- •14.8 Capability-Based Systems
- •14.9 Language-Based Protection
- •14.10 Summary
- •Practice Exercises
- •Bibliographical Notes
- •Bibliography
- •15.1 The Security Problem
- •15.2 Program Threats
- •15.3 System and Network Threats
- •15.4 Cryptography as a Security Tool
- •15.5 User Authentication
- •15.6 Implementing Security Defenses
- •15.7 Firewalling to Protect Systems and Networks
- •15.9 An Example: Windows 7
- •15.10 Summary
- •Exercises
- •Bibliographical Notes
- •Bibliography
- •16.1 Overview
- •16.2 History
- •16.4 Building Blocks
- •16.5 Types of Virtual Machines and Their Implementations
- •16.6 Virtualization and Operating-System Components
- •16.7 Examples
- •16.8 Summary
- •Exercises
- •Bibliographical Notes
- •Bibliography
- •17.1 Advantages of Distributed Systems
- •17.2 Types of Network-based Operating Systems
- •17.3 Network Structure
- •17.4 Communication Structure
- •17.5 Communication Protocols
- •17.6 An Example: TCP/IP
- •17.7 Robustness
- •17.8 Design Issues
- •17.9 Distributed File Systems
- •17.10 Summary
- •Practice Exercises
- •Bibliographical Notes
- •Bibliography
- •18.1 Linux History
- •18.2 Design Principles
- •18.3 Kernel Modules
- •18.4 Process Management
- •18.5 Scheduling
- •18.6 Memory Management
- •18.7 File Systems
- •18.8 Input and Output
- •18.9 Interprocess Communication
- •18.10 Network Structure
- •18.11 Security
- •18.12 Summary
- •Practice Exercises
- •Bibliographical Notes
- •Bibliography
- •19.1 History
- •19.2 Design Principles
- •19.3 System Components
- •19.4 Terminal Services and Fast User Switching
- •19.5 File System
- •19.6 Networking
- •19.7 Programmer Interface
- •19.8 Summary
- •Practice Exercises
- •Bibliographical Notes
- •Bibliography
- •20.1 Feature Migration
- •20.2 Early Systems
- •20.3 Atlas
- •20.7 CTSS
- •20.8 MULTICS
- •20.10 TOPS-20
- •20.12 Macintosh Operating System and Windows
- •20.13 Mach
- •20.14 Other Systems
- •Exercises
- •Bibliographical Notes
- •Bibliography
- •Credits
- •Index
904Chapter 20 Influential Operating Systems
while permitting operating-system emulation at the user level, much like IBM’s virtual machine systems.
Some previous editions of Operating System Concepts included an entire chapter on Mach. This chapter, as it appeared in the fourth edition, is available on the Web (http://www.os-book.com).
20.14 Other Systems
There are, of course, other operating systems, and most of them have interesting properties. The MCP operating system for the Burroughs computer family was the first to be written in a system programming language. It supported segmentation and multiple CPUs. The SCOPE operating system for the CDC 6600 was also a multi-CPU system. The coordination and synchronization of the multiple processes were surprisingly well designed.
History is littered with operating systems that suited a purpose for a time (be it a long or a short time) and then, when faded, were replaced by operating systems that had more features, supported newer hardware, were easier to use, or were better marketed. We are sure this trend will continue in the future.
Exercises
20.1Discuss what considerations the computer operator took into account in deciding on the sequences in which programs would be run on early computer systems that were manually operated.
20.2What optimizations were used to minimize the discrepancy between CPU and I/O speeds on early computer systems?
20.3Consider the page-replacement algorithm used by Atlas. In what ways is it different from the clock algorithm discussed in Section 9.4.5.2?
20.4Consider the multilevel feedback queue used by CTSS and MULTICS. Suppose a program consistently uses seven time units every time it is scheduled before it performs an I/O operation and blocks. How many time units are allocated to this program when it is scheduled for execution at different points in time?
20.5What are the implications of supporting BSD functionality in user-mode servers within the Mach operating system?
20.6What conclusions can be drawn about the evolution of operating systems? What causes some operating systems to gain in popularity and others to fade?
Bibliographical Notes
Looms and calculators are described in [Frah (2001)] and shown graphically in [Frauenfelder (2005)].
The Manchester Mark 1 is discussed by [Rojas and Hashagen (2000)], and its offspring, the Ferranti Mark 1, is described by [Ceruzzi (1998)].
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[Kilburn et al. (1961)] and [Howarth et al. (1961)] examine the Atlas operating system.
The XDS-940 operating system is described by [Lichtenberger and Pirtle (1965)].
The THE operating system is covered by [Dijkstra (1968)] and by [McKeag and Wilson (1976)].
The Venus system is described by [Liskov (1972)].
[Brinch-Hansen (1970)] and [Brinch-Hansen (1973)] discuss the RC 4000 system.
The Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS) is presented by [Corbato et al. (1962)].
The MULTICS operating system is described by [Corbato and Vyssotsky (1965)] and [Organick (1972)].
[Mealy et al. (1966)] presented the IBM/360. [Lett and Konigsford (1968)] cover TSS/360.
CP/67 is described by [Meyer and Seawright (1970)] and [Parmelee et al. (1972)].
DEC VMS is discussed by [Kenah et al. (1988)], and TENEX is described by [Bobrow et al. (1972)].
A description of the Apple Macintosh appears in [Apple (1987)]. For more information on these operating systems and their history, see [Freiberger and Swaine (2000)].
The Mach operating system and its ancestor, the Accent operating system, are described by [Rashid and Robertson (1981)]. Mach’s communication system is covered by [Rashid (1986)], [Tevanian et al. (1989)], and [Accetta et al. (1986)]. The Mach scheduler is described in detail by [Tevanian et al. (1987a)] and [Black (1990)]. An early version of the Mach sharedmemory and memory-mapping system is presented by [Tevanian et al. (1987b)]. A good resource describing the Mach project can be found at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/mach/public/www/mach.html.
[McKeag and Wilson (1976)] discuss the MCP operating system for the Burroughs computer family as well as the SCOPE operating system for the CDC 6600.
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