Operating system principles
By: Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, Greg Gagne
Contributors: Galvin, Peter B.; Gagne, Greg
Edition: 7th ed.
Publisher: J. Wiley & Sons; Wiley India; Wiley
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Hoboken, NJ; New Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 896
ISBN-13: 9780471725954; 9788126509621
Subjects: Operating systems (Computers)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 831-860).
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Overview. Ch. 1. Introduction; title: Ch. 2. System structures; title: pt. 2. Process management. Ch. 3. Process-concept; title: Ch. 4. Multithreaded programming; title: Ch. 5. Process scheduling; title: pt. 3. Process coordination. Ch. 6. Synchronization; title: Ch. 7. Deadlocks; title: pt. 4. Memory management. Ch. 8. Memory-management strategies; title: Ch. 9. Virtual-memory management; title: pt. 5. Storage management. Ch. 10. File system; title: Ch. 11. Implementing file systems; title: Ch. 12. Secondary-storage structure; title: Ch. 13. I/O systems; title: pt. 6. Distributed systems. Ch. 14. Distributed operating systems; title: Ch. 15. Distributed file systems; title: Ch. 16. Distributed synchronization; title: pt. 7. Protection and security. Ch. 17. System protection; title: Ch. 18. System security; title: pt. 8. Special-purpose systems. Ch. 19. Real-time systems; title: Ch. 20. Multimedia systems; title: pt. 9. Case studies. Ch. 21. The Linux system; title: Ch. 22. Windows XP; title: Ch. 23. Influential operating systems; title: App. A. UNIX BSD (contents online); title: App. B. The Mach System (contents online); title: App. C. Windows 2000 (contents online).